Borg create: error: the following arguments are required: ARCHIVE, PATH

[PrimAvalou]

I’m following this tutorial and I could create my first data backup with borg ( !). Now I would like to create another one. The command line for the first backup is a copy-paste of yours, except for the repo (I only have one user on my computer so I did not created a specific folder for, the username is in the backup name) :

borg create --stats --progress --compression lzma,9
             --exclude ".cache/" \
             --exclude ".local/share/" \
             --exclude ".config/borg/" \
             --exclude "snap" \
             --exclude "jimbo" \
             --exclude "Examples" \
             --exclude "Downloads" \
             --exclude "Videos/*.avi" \
             --exclude "Videos/*.mp4" \
             --exclude "Videos/*.mkv" \
      /run/media/username/HDDname/Backups::{user}-{now:%Y-%m-%d} . 2>> /var/tmp/"$USER"-bck.log

That worked perfectly, but for the second backup I copy-pasted that same command and now I have :

borg create: error: the following arguments are required: ARCHIVE, PATH

Does the command for next backups must be different than for the very first one ?

[Nachlese]

That is actually one long line.
You broke it up into multiple lines
and, as far as I can see, forgot a \ after the first line when you wrote it as a multi-line command.

It should probably look like this:

borg create --stats --progress --compression lzma,9 \
             --exclude ".cache/" \
             --exclude ".local/share/" \
             --exclude ".config/borg/" \
             --exclude "snap" \
             --exclude "jimbo" \
             --exclude "Examples" \
             --exclude "Downloads" \
             --exclude "Videos/*.avi" \
             --exclude "Videos/*.mp4" \
             --exclude "Videos/*.mkv" \
/run/media/username/HDDname/Backups::{user}-{now:%Y-%m-%d} . 2>> /var/tmp/"$USER"-bck.log

[Fabby]

Please note that the Tutorial thread is only for providing feed-back to the tutorial itself. Requests for support go into the support section and why I’ve reclassified your question.

@PrimAvalou

Does the command for next backups must be different than for the very first one

No it doesn’t, so:

• check your previous borg command with the history | grep "borg create" command

• @PrimAvalou

  /run/media/username/HDDname/Backups

  You seem to be using a user automount instead of a fixed mount, so verify it’s mounted in the same place.

[PrimAvalou]

Damn, I’m sorry guys for bothering you because of that mistake of mine. I had to run i quickly before doing something else and I did not checked enough my command… I’m so sorry !
Thanks for your reply @Nachlese !

@Fabby

You seem to be using a user automount instead of a fixed mount, so verify it’s mounted in the same place.

That may not be the best way to dot it, but I’m currently more confident by letting Thunar to mount the HDD by itself and then check with ls. If I evolve the way I mount HDDs/USB sticks, I would know how to adapt the Borg command.
Once again, sorry to bother you for that kind of mistake, thanks a lot to both of you, and I consider your first sentence @Fabby