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KenKundert / borg-space

Accessory for Emborg used to report and track the size of your Borg repositories
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Depends on emborg still? #5

Closed adhawkins closed 1 year ago

adhawkins commented 1 year ago

Just wondering if this should still depend on emborg? The docs say it reads files created by emborg 1.36 to determine the space used, so surely this should still be a requirement?

KenKundert commented 1 year ago

The previous version of borg-space used the Emborg API and so it had a direct dependency on Emborg. This version does not use the emborg API and so no longer has a direct dependency on the Emborg code. Instead it counts on Emborg producing a particularly file when it performs a backup. Only Emborg 1.36 and later creates that file. Borg-Space can read those files on remote machines. So it is possible to install Borg-Space on a machine, such as a laptop, that does not have Emborg installed, so as to be able to monitor the back-ups on other machines, say a collection of servers. In that case forcing the installation of Emborg on the laptop would serve no purpose.

adhawkins commented 1 year ago

Ok, understood. Just wanted to be sure I set the dependencies of the Alpine correctly.

Thanks for the explanation.