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Borg Native on Windows
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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
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- 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
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.. 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 none ./demoRepo`` runs without an error/warning.
Note that only relative paths work at the moment.
- ``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
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- Extracting a backup which was created on windows machine on a non windows machine will fail.
- And many things more.