[Borgbackup] Schroedingers Repo?

[Roland]

hello ,

if even the original author of borg thought this is "strange" on a first
view,  wouldn't some additional and more
explanatory readme/marker file like "THIS_IS_A_BORGEPO_DIR"  make sense ?

at least some more informational message could be helpful to better see,
why borg thinks some dir is a repo.

README could have been any READMY (that's pretty ordinary filename),
maybe even README.borg would be
more self explanatory.

regards
roland


Am 22.01.24 um 17:46 schrieb Thomas Waldmann:

> borg does not let you create a borg repository inside another borg
> repository.
>
> It checks that at "borg init" time by looking for the borg README in
> all parent directories. If it finds one, it says "Repository already
> exists at ...".
>
> It looks like you have such a README there (but there is no data/
> directory and also no other files typically found in a borg repo on
> that directory level, so guess just just forgot to remove that README
> file when cleaning up).
>
>
> On 22.01.24 10:11, Bjoern Franke via Borgbackup wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> as already mentioned, it does not exist:
>>>
>>> ls: bla: No such file or directory
>>
>> As I used the dir as a parameter for "ls -la", here now without it:
>>
>>
>> ssh -o port=23 u123456 at u123456.your-storagebox.de "ls -la"
>> total 267
>> drwxr-xr-x   8 u123456 u123456  9 Jan 21 20:54 .
>> dr-x--x--x  11 root     wheel    11 Dec 22 12:28 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 u123456 u123456  3 Dec  9 12:14 .ssh
>> -rw-r--r--   1 u123456 u123456 73 May 15  2021 README
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 u123456 u123456  3 Dec  7 21:58 cloud
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 u123456 u123456  9 Jan 22 01:34 home
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 u123456 u123456  9 Jan 22 01:34 mail
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 u123456 u123456  8 Jan 22 00:57 pod
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 u123456 u123456  9 Jan 21 23:01 wa2
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