BorgBackup

References

• Borg on GitHub

To Do

Benchmarks:

• DONE - Client/server zavcvl0005, storage on lacie-cloudbox via CIFS.
• DONE - Client zavcxl0005, server griffin, storage on lacie-cloudbox via CIFS.
• Client zavcxl0005, server lacie-cloudbox, local storage.
• Client zavcxl0005, server raspberry-pi, storage on lacie-cloudbox via CIFS.

Config:

• How best configure Borg for multiple clients backing up to same repo (see ticket #2313).
• How sync. backup time on multiple client? Triggered by server? or triggered by client? How prevent concurrent session?
• Collect stats on client and server. Report these stats via email or such.

To Do:

• Install borg on lacie-cloudbox, collect bench and stats.

Install on Ubuntu 16.04

• https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html
• https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases

sudo apt install python3 python3-dev python3-pip python-virtualenv libssl-dev openssl libacl1-dev libacl1 liblz4-dev liblz4-1 build-essential
sudo apt install libfuse-dev fuse pkg-config    # optional, for FUSE support
sudo pip3 install "borgbackup==1.1.0b5"

Since Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic:

sudo apt install borgbackup        # v1.1.5-1 on Bionic

Tips

Multiple client

• borg create without syncing cache

Implements #916, and Borgception.