BorgBackup Sprint

 

EuroPython 2021 (Online),  Room 3

 

by

 

Thomas Waldmann (Project Maintainer)

Deduplicating archiver
with compression and authenticated encryption

Features

• Space efficient due to deduplicaton
• Encryption + authentication:
  backup to untrusted storage servers
• Wide range of compression levels:
  super fast to high compression
• Platform support:
  Linux, macOS, *BSD, OpenIndiana, (Windows)
• CLI, GUI separately available (e.g. Vorta)
• Backup Storage:  your own or commercial offers

Code

• Python 3.x (most of our code)
• Cython (to interface to C code)
• C (own space-efficient hash table)
• 3rd-party Libs:
  • msgpack
  • OpenSSL, blake2b
  • zstd, lz4, lzma, zlib

Tools / Services

• git + github
• pytest + tox
• setuptools_scm
• sphinx, asciinema
• CI via github actions
• vagrant (platform testing)
• bountysource
• readthedocs.org

Sprint Topics

• get an introduction into codebase
• debug / analyze / fix issues
• work on docs
• improve platform compatibility,
  especially macOS, BSD, OpenIndiana, Windows, ...
• (whatever you want)
• for details, see:  Issue #5943

Sounds interesting?

Join us for the

BorgBackup Sprint

 

in Room 3,  contact:  Thomas Waldmann

BorgBackup Sprint

 

by

 

Thomas Waldmann (Project Maintainer)

 

What to do?  See there:

 

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/5943