Comment on What I just learned about restoring BorgBackups
witten@lemmy.world 7 months agoNope! Borg always requires Borg on the remote side. It’s Borg’s biggest strength and weakness versus competing backup systems IMO. Strength, because it can do pretty smart stuff with its own code running on both sides. Weakness, because it means it doesn’t work natively with cloud object storage like S3. It’s a tradeoff like anything else.
shadowbert@kbin.social 7 months ago
Makes sense - compromises like you say.
So in the context of unraid, do I just run the borgmatic container on both ends? Or should there be a specific 'server' one?
witten@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not super familiar with Unraid, but yeah, the borgserver image sounds like it’d work for this… You don’t need borgmatic on the server side unless you want it there to make running Borg commands easier.
shadowbert@kbin.social 7 months ago
Is it normal for borg to nag for my password so many times?
witten@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Separate configs is totally reasonable. It just sounds like you haven’t configured your Borg passphrase with borgmatic… Otherwise it wouldn’t prompt for your passphrase at all.