[Borgbackup] Fwd: Re: What don't you like about Borg?

[Daniel Reichelt]

(manual fwrd since I previously replied only to Marian...)


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Subject: Re: [Borgbackup] What don't you like about Borg?
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:55:19 +0200
From: Marian Beermann <public at enkore.de>
To: Daniel Reichelt <hacking at nachtgeist.net>

That annoyed me as well, but I couldn't come up with a good solution.
Your idea looks like a very good match to me.

Cheers, Marian

On 20.10.2016 12:38, Daniel Reichelt wrote:
>> We all know about the good stuff Borg does, where it shines. I want to
>> know about the bad stuff. Where it's annoying, doesn't work like one
>> wanted to...
> 
> Nice thinking :-)
> 
> 
> My $0.02 about annoyances:
> 
> I think the handling of restores is a pretty cumbersome. Most of the
> time I know how old a version of a file/sub-tree I need to restore, but
> most certainly I do not know the exact name of the archive that stuff is
> stored in.
> 
> Before I switched to borg, I used to restore from rdiff-backup's
> "repository" (to stay with borg's terminology) with s.th. like
> 
> rdiff-back -r 5d /path/to/repo/path/to/file
> 
> which restored the subtree /path/to/file to CWD in the state is was
> known to rdiff-backup 5 days ago.
> 
> 
> Now with borg, I have to do a borg list /path/to/repo | grep
> $someYear-$someMonth followed by mouse-selection, borg restore
> /path/to/repo/$middleMouseClick and so on.
> 
> Of course rdiff-backup and borg differ profoundly in the sense that
> rdiff-backup sees a repository logically anchored to a fixed path which
> is backed up whereas borg stores whatever was specified on the cmdline
> to an archive.
> 
> With that in mind it would really be nice to have something like
> 
> borg restore --arch-prefix user-homes-host-0815 --as-of 5d /path/to/repo
> /path/to/file-to-restore-1 /path2/to2/file-to-restore-2
> 
> which then would restore from repo the files file-to-restore-1 [and so
> on] from the archives prefixed with user-homes-host-0815 and doing the
> final selection of the archive to use as source by a time match, in this
> case the latest archive that precedes the point in time [now - 5 days].
> 
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>
>>
>> Cheers, Marian
>>
>> -
>>
>> Things that annoy me:
>>
>> - No good desktop GUI (I'm not a good designer, my own attempt kinda
>> failed).
>> - Sometimes it's slow and it's hard to tell why without knowing a lot
>> about internals
>> - Error messages are often kinda obscure
>> - When used on the command line progress output is often missing (in
>> current beta) even with --progress
>>
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