this was making us require mock, which is really a test component and
shouldn't be part of the runtime dependencies. furthermore, it was
making the imports and the code more brittle: it may have been
possible that, through an environment variable, backups could be
corrupted because mock libraries would be configured instead of real
once, which is a risk we shouldn't be taking.
finally, this was used only to build docs, which we will build and
commit to git by hand with a fully working borg when relevant.
see #384.
This is what attic used by default, but borgbackup defaults to "no compression".
I just adjusted the command invocation, so we can keep the example output
(which shows that stuff was compressed).
Also: add FAQ item about compression.
instead of applying this only to usage generation, use it as a generic
mechanism to disable loading of Cython code.
it may be incomplete: there may be other places where Cython code is
loaded that is not checked, but that is sufficient to build the usage
docs. the environment variable used is documented as such in the
docs/usage.rst.
we also move the check to a helper function and document it
better. this has the unfortunate side effect of moving includes
around, but I can't think of a better way.
while SSH options can be specified through `~/.ssh/config`, some users
may want to use a completely different SSH command for their backups,
without overriding their $PATH variable. it may also be easier to do
ad-hoc configuration and tests that way.
plus, the POLA tells us that users expects something like this to be
supported by commands that talk to ssh. it is supported by rsync, git
and so on.
sets the default repository to use, e.g. like:
export BORG_REPO=/mnt/backup/repo
borg init
borg create ::archive
borg list
borg mount :: /mnt
fusermount -u /mnt
borg delete ::archive
faq about redundancy / integrity
compression is optional
having borg installed on backup server is optional (but faster)
cygwin installation tipps
do not document passphrase encryption mode example, use keyfile mode
- use power-of-2 sizes / n bit hash mask so one can give them more easily
- chunker api: give seed first, so we can give *chunker_params after it
- fix some tests that aren't possible with 2^N
- make sparse file extraction zero detection flexible for variable chunk max size
Thanks to @lfam (attic PR #277 )!
Note: As I already had refactored a lot of these pathes you changed, it was easier
to just cherry pick the hunks with the other changes and apply them manually.
it's pretty useless to have .borg as a directory extension, especially
since there is a README in there stating that this is a borg repo.
conistency:
"backup" is always used as relative backup repository path
"/mnt/backup" is always used as absolute repository path
use borg instead attic except at the places where it was used:
- as toplevel package name, directory name, file name
- to refer to original attic
remove sphinx upload make command, will be replaced by github.io site later
remove references to binary downloads and linux packages for now
remove some software name references, fix grammar
use borgbackup rather than borg-backup (or borg) in URLs,
less name collision issues, better search results, no validity issues with "-"
Antoine Beaupré