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Re:BorgBackup, Deduplicating archiver with compression and e... by wdkrnls on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @10:02PM (#34157036)
Don't underestimate the value of a self contained binary. I used to use Borg and Attic. Then I needed to recover my backup only to find that all the python dependencies had gone out of sync on Arch Linux. After that I switched to Restic. Then I had a power failure during upgrade. After that I switched to Guix.
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Re:BorgBackup, Deduplicating archiver with compression and e... by ThomasWaldmann on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @10:06PM (#34157068)
You could have just used the self-contained borg binary (download from github releases page).

It contains everything needed (python, python libs, other libs) except glibc and related libs which must match the OS / kernel and therefore are intentionally not included.

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Re:BorgBackup, Deduplicating archiver with compression and e... by qwertygerty on Thursday December 29, 2022 @09:52AM (#34173154)
surely,after fixing all the dependencies, and getting borg running again, you would've been able to access your backups?
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