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It’s a shame because the current version has had bugs that v2 supposedly fixed for a while.


Bugs?

I don't know about any show-stoppers in borg 1.x.

Design limitations?

Yes, there are some, that's why borg2 will be quite different. But these are no easy or small changes.

Also, borg2 will be a breaking release (offering borg transfer to copy existing archives from borg 1.x repos). It takes long because we try to put all breaking changes into borg2, so you won't have to transfer again too soon after borg2 release.


Nothing really breaking but annoying, but I suppose you wouldn't even consider it a bug then.

For example, the file changed warning. That one ended up breaking my backup cron. I wasn't being notified (my fault there) and the rsync wasn't running. Caught it months later when I tried to run a test restore.

I'm fine with it returning a warning but people were asking for an option to suppress it and you said in 2022 it would be fixed in v2.

That's why it's disappointing. Appreciate the work though! Borg has definitely been a life safer and has recovered a failed production server already.




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