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Borg Native on Windows
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2019-08-08 21:51:21 +00:00
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Running borg natively on windows is in a early alpha stage. Expect many things to fail.
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Do not use the native windows build on any data which you do not want to lose!
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Build Requirements
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- VC 14.0 Compiler
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2019-09-06 22:37:56 +00:00
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- OpenSSL Library v1.1.1c, 64bit (available at https://github.com/python/cpython-bin-deps)
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Please use the `win-download-openssl.ps1` script to download and extract the library to
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the correct location. See also the OpenSSL section below.
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- Patience and a lot of coffee / beer
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What's working
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2019-08-08 21:51:21 +00:00
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.. note::
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The following examples assume that the `BORG_REPO` and `BORG_PASSPHRASE` environment variables are set
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if the repo or passphrase is not explicitly given.
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2019-08-08 21:51:21 +00:00
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- Borg does not crash if called with ``borg``
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- ``borg init --encryption repokey-blake2 ./demoRepo`` runs without an error/warning.
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Note that absolute paths only work if the protocol is explicitly set to file://
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- ``borg create ::backup-{now} D:\DemoData`` works as expected.
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- ``borg list`` works as expected.
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- ``borg extract --strip-components 1 ::backup-XXXX`` works.
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If absolute paths are extracted, it's important to pass ``--strip-components 1`` as
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otherwise the data is restored to the original location!
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What's NOT working
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2019-08-08 21:51:21 +00:00
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- Extracting a backup which was created on windows machine on a non windows machine will fail.
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- And many things more.
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2019-09-06 22:37:56 +00:00
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OpenSSL, Windows and Python
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Windows does not ship OpenSSL by default, so we need to get the library from somewhere else.
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However, a default python installation does include `libcrypto` which is required by borg.
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The only things which are missing to build borg are the header and `*.lib` files.
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Luckily the python developers provide all required files in a separate repository.
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The `win-download-openssl.ps1` script can be used to download the package from
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https://github.com/python/cpython-bin-deps and extract the files to the correct location.
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2019-11-03 21:29:27 +00:00
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For Anaconda, the required libraries can be installed with `conda install -c anaconda openssl`.
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