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 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
 --------------
 
+.. 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
+------------------
 
+- Extracting a backup which was created on windows machine on a non windows machine will fail.
+- And many things more.