[Borgbackup] Some minor issues

[Adrian Klaver]

On 06/17/2016 02:01 AM, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> hello to the collective,

First, what version of Borg?

>
> in my setup, I'm backing up many similar VMs, which is a perfect ground for
> borgs excelling deduplication feature. Since they're hosted on different
> machines and backup is triggered with cron, I'm using a single repo and
>
>  	BORG_RELOCATED_REPO_ACCESS_IS_OK=yes
>
> to harvest the maximum result. Of course, it took two attempts to get this
> working unattended. A quick googling revealed the environmental intervention.
> This deserves a note in the documentation of remote backups, probably with
> mentioning the reasons.
>
> What's still a little disturbing, is this:
> Warning: The repository at location /backup/borg was previously located at
> ssh://user@host/backup/borg
> Do you want to continue? [yN]
>
> Given the answer is defined by environment, what's the reason the print the
> question "Do you.."? Since no input is given anyway, it results in a missing
> newline, which distorts the output. I would even argue, that the warning
> itself isn't justified due to being actively approved beforehand, unless
> -v is also given. It appears on every backup run and ever recurring warnings
> generally doesn't improve average users confidence in the system.
>
> While at it, I noticed, that providing --stats on the command line doesn't
> produce any output without also giving -v, which generates other output, that
> is less interesting for unattended runs:
>
> Synchronizing chunks cache...
> Archives: 10, w/ cached Idx: 0, w/ outdated Idx: 0, w/o cached Idx: 10.
> ....

What command and what is the full command line ?

>
> If the stats output was requested explicitly, it should be done, no matter,
> what other options were given or not.
>
> Cheers,
> Pete
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