BorgBackup via Homebrew not working great

[mikael]

Hi!

I have installed borgbackup via Homebrew on my Aurora box. Connecting from my TrueNAS server to this Aurora box with passwordless SSH works great.

However, doing a borg backup from the server to the Aurora computer does not work great.

I do this from the TrueNAS server:
borg create user@AuroraIP:/home/user/testrepo/::just_a_name /mnt/dataset/directory/

I get:
Connection closed by remote host. Is borg working on the server?

Which makes me think borg on the server doesn’t find the Homebrew version of borg on the Aurora box (despite Homebrew being in path).

Does anyone have experience with this? Should I resort to layering?

Really wish borgbackup was on the image! Such a fantastic program.

[mikael]

@mikael

Should I resort to layering?

Did:
brew uninstall borgbackup
rpm-ostree install borgbackup

Can confirm it now works as intended. Would it be possible to make it work with Homebrew instead?

If not, perhaps I should suggest borgbackup to be included in the Aurora image… If restic is there I really think borgbackup should be there too.

I remember trying both and that I found borg to be superior. Why? I don’t remember.

[j0rge]

Someone file an issue to put borgbackup on the image and I’ll take a look this week.

[valentin]

I have just reverted to Bluefin, after a short hiatus to Fedora Workstation; one of the the first tasks was to install Borg Backup to restore my home directory. I installed it via “Homebreew” - no issues whatsoever, it worked fine.

And the the last backup was made using borgbackup v1.2.8, restored using v1.4.0.

[mikael]

@valentin

I have just reverted to Bluefin, after a short hiatus to Fedora Workstation; one of the the first tasks was to install Borg Backup to restore my home directory. I installed it via “Homebreew” - no issues whatsoever, it worked fine.

That would work for me too.
What didn’t work for me was trying to create borg backup over SSH with the Aurora machine as the SSH backup destination. Borg on the source won’t find Homebrew Borg on the Aurora destination.

[mikael]

@j0rge

Someone file an issue to put borgbackup on the image and I’ll take a look this week.

Consider it done.

[NiHaiden]

Should soon land on your machine when the PR gets merged @mikael

feat: Add Borgbackup on the image for both Aurora and Bluefin

[NiHaiden]

This landed just recently. Closing thread as this is now fixed.