Release 2.0.0a2 - alpha quality, for testing only

[ThomasWaldmann]

borgbackup 2.0.0a2 alpha release - do not use this on production backup repositories.

Long changelog:
https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/2.0.0a2/changes.html#version-2-0-0a2-2022-06-26

If you use pip to install this, use: pip install "borgbackup==2.0.0a2"

Docs: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/2.0.0a2/

Feedback: here or in the issue tracker.

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This discussion was created from the release Release 2.0.0a2 - alpha quality, for testing only.

[ThomasWaldmann]

When trying borg transfer, this might be useful:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/borgbackup/borg/borg2/docs/usage/transfer.rst

[real-yfprojects]

How much change to the command line interface can be expected until the stable release?

[ThomasWaldmann]

well considering we are still in an early phase of the release/testing process, it is a bit hard to tell, but i guess the most fundamental known stuff is already done: • no scp style repos, use ssh://… • separation of repo and archive name, no :: • separation of commands working on repos and on archives • more commands will offer -a • less commands offer positional archive names if it can be also done with -a

[ThomasWaldmann]

PSA: I just noticed that I had placed a rather hard restriction on the repository version this borg wants to accept (this was mainly to avoid accidental damage, so this alpha quality borg is not run against production repos):

It only accepts version = 2 repos (see the repo_dir/config file). It also uses version 2 for new repos.

But, this currently also applies to --other-repo (which is used to give the source repository for borg transfer).

Thus, if you want to test borg transfer with borg 2.0.0a2, it means that you first have to edit the repo config of the repository made with borg 1.2.