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| author | Jürg Rast <juergr@gmail.com> | 2019-08-08 23:51:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Jürg Rast <juergr@gmail.com> | 2019-08-25 18:27:58 +0200 |
| commit | a81dffa54e9f2ced0a2345d9df9cc80ea0206f15 (patch) | |
| tree | bbd7410d9d76b830132aadc603c6c80dc44c8398 /README_WINDOWS.rst | |
| parent | bff97a99e16f992203c8af0df5550b4def02218b (diff) | |
Updated windows readme with current state
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diff --git a/README_WINDOWS.rst b/README_WINDOWS.rst index 8ad610976..07ba50523 100644 --- a/README_WINDOWS.rst +++ b/README_WINDOWS.rst @@ -1,19 +1,34 @@ Borg Native on Windows ====================== +Running borg natively on windows is in a early alpha stage. Expect many things to fail. +Do not use the native windows build on any data which you do not want to lose! + Build Requirements ------------------ - VC 14.0 Compiler -- OpenSSL Library (https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html) +- OpenSSL Library v1.1.1c, 64bit (available at https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html) - Patience and a lot of coffee / beer What's working -------------- -- Borg does not crash if called with ``borg`` -- ``borg init --encryption none ./demoRepo`` runs without an error/warning. - Note that only relative paths work at the moment. +.. note:: + The following examples assume that the `BORG_REPO` and `BORG_PASSPHRASE` environment variables are set + if the repo or passphrase is not explicitly given. +- Borg does not crash if called with ``borg`` +- ``borg init --encryption repokey-blake2 ./demoRepo`` runs without an error/warning. + Note that absolute paths only work if the protocol is explicitly set to file:// +- ``borg create ::backup-{now} D:\DemoData`` works as expected. +- ``borg list`` works as expected. +- ``borg extract --strip-components 1 ::backup-XXXX`` works. + If absolute paths are extracted, it's important to pass ``--strip-components 1`` as + otherwise the data is resotred to the original location! +What's NOT working +------------------ +- Extracting a backup which was created on windows machine on a non windows machine will fail. +- And many things more. |