https://status.borgbase.com/status/default

I found out from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37115540

Since I opened that issue back then, I want to mention that in the meantime I developed my own backup solution which I think is better than Borg. Right now I am 90% done with version 2 of it and I will definitively use it to backup my Cloudron instance.

As mentioned before, I use the built-in daily unencrypted Backup to local filesystem using the rsync backend and the "3 daily, 4 weekly, 6 monthly" schedule.

These daily encrypted backups of the "snapshot" folder are backed up via restic to OneDrive (which is in my O365 subscription) with the same schedule as above.

This gives me mountable(!) remote point-in-time backups.

What I use for backing up (daily):

#!/bin/bash
d=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
if pidof -o %PPID -x “$0”; then
echo “$(date “+%d.%m.%Y %T”) Exit, already running.”
exit 1
fi
restic -r rclone:onedrive:restic backup /media/Cloudron/snapshot/ -p=resticpw
restic -r rclone:onedrive:restic forget --keep-monthly 6 --keep-weekly 4 --keep-daily 7 -p=resticpw

What I use for pruning (once a month):

#!/bin/bash
d=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
if pidof -o %PPID -x “$0”; then
echo “$(date “+%d.%m.%Y %T”) Exit, already running.”
exit 1
fi
restic -r rclone:onedrive:restic prune -p=resticpw

Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty BorgBackup with your desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.

• Encrypted, deduplicated and compressed backups using Borg as backend.
• No vendor lock-in – back up to local drives, your own server or BorgBase, a hosting service for Borg backups.
• Open source – free to use, modify, improve and audit.
• Flexible profiles to group source folders, backup destinations and schedules.
• One place to view all point-in-time archives and restore individual files.

Vorta should work on all platforms that support Qt and Borg. This includes macOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux and many others. Windows is currently not fully supported by Borg, but this may change in the future.

Edit: it was proposed for inclusion in 4.5 https://forum.cloudron.io/post/5586

More details here:
https://forum.cloudron.io/post/5936

But then bumped to maybe in 5.2:
https://forum.cloudron.io/post/7083

What's the current state of play?

Thanks!

I changed the permissions back now.

Thanks.

I can see now that the most recent post there was from yourself 2 years ago saying:

We will probably not support this since nobody in the team has expertise on borg. But we now have rsync style backups.

That's a shame.

Would it in theory be possible to just install it on my VPS where Cloudron is installed or what that be playing with fire? (as it is I've never touched it aside from initially installing Cloudron)

That link is a 404 (even after logging in)

Oh, that might be my bad. I had changed the GitLab Issues to 'Only Project Members' (because we got some low effort issue spam). I thought that made the issue tracker readonly for others, but looks like GitLab has no option for this. I changed the permissions back now.

Some historical background as well https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/issues/238
We may reevaluate supporting it.

That link is a 404 (even after logging in)