[Borgbackup] Remote sources

[Adrian Klaver]

On 04/15/2016 05:06 AM, Jonas Wielicki wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Is there (non-obvious) support for backing up from remote sources? A
> simple
>
>      borg create test::bar somehost:/
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> did not succeed (No such file or directory: 'somehost:').
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> If there is no such feature, is there a recommended way to implement
> "pull" style backups using borg?

See:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/36

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/900

>
> If not, is it worth having an issue for that, and has anyone an
> estimate of the complexity? I imagine, given that remote-destination
> backups exist, it should be possible to do it the other way round
> without too much effort. I am asking and thinking because I need that
> feature to start using borg and I am considering putting some time
> into making it happen.
>
> best regards,
> jwi

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Adrian Klaver
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