使用 Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, zypper, pacman 安装 borgbackup

项目链接

• 主页
• 仓库
• 上游文档
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• borg
• borgfs

项目历史

Borg began publicly as a fork of Attic. The project's first GitHub issue, opened May 13, 2015, states that the fork was made to allow different approaches to development, goals, and policy, with emphasis on openness, accepting good pull requests, discussing changes publicly, and avoiding accidental compatibility breaks.

The official documentation describes Borg's core design: split files into variable-length chunks, store only chunks not already present in the repository, optionally compress data, and protect data with client-side authenticated encryption. Borg's SSH-friendly repository model made it practical for daily off-site backups to hosts that were not fully trusted.

Borg reached 1.0.0 on March 5, 2016. The current stable documentation is for Borg 1.4.4, while the master README warns that Borg 2 is in beta and should not be used for production backups, showing an active but compatibility-conscious split between stable backup users and future repository-format work.

采用历史

Borg's adoption grew among Linux, macOS, and BSD users who wanted a command-line alternative to rsync-style mirror backups and tarball rotation. The package-manager data in the input shows broad distribution coverage across Alpine, Homebrew, Debian, DNF, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Ubuntu, and openSUSE, matching its role as infrastructure software rather than an application-specific tool.

The docs also call out JSON output for frontends, which helped a small ecosystem of wrappers and graphical tools build on the CLI instead of a Python API. That front-end contract matters because backup tools need automation, monitoring, and restore UX without weakening the reliability of the core command.

使用方式

Typical use starts by creating a repository with encryption, then running `borg create` repeatedly so only new chunks are stored. Users commonly set `BORG_REPO`, back up to a local path or SSH remote, prune old archives, mount archives as file systems for browsing, and use JSON/log output in automation.

Borg's key workflows are daily encrypted off-site backups, space-efficient backups of large changing files such as VM images, multi-machine repositories where chunk deduplication crosses archive boundaries, and disaster-recovery restores from append-only or otherwise protected storage.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

BorgBackup is package-nerd significant because it is a backup tool where packaging quality directly affects data safety: users care about reproducible binaries, FUSE support for mounting archives, Python/Cython extension compatibility, OpenSSL or crypto backend behavior, and careful upgrade notes. Its package name also preserves the full project name while the CLI is simply `borg`.

It is also a canonical example of a serious CLI exposing machine-readable output for frontends while refusing to promise a stable internal Python API. That boundary is exactly the kind of packaging and integration decision that distribution maintainers and backup-tool operators notice.

时间线

• 2015: Borg fork goals issue opened, documenting the fork from Attic and project policy goals.
• 2015: 0.26.x through 0.29.x release series published before 1.0.
• 2016: Borg 1.0.0 published.
• 2025: Borg 2.0 beta releases continue for testing only.
• 2026: Borg 1.4.4 stable release published.

Related projects

• Related projects include Attic, the project Borg forked from, plus command-line backup tools such as restic, duplicity, rsync-based backup systems, and Borg frontends that consume the documented CLI JSON output.

来源

• https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
• https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/internals/frontends.html
• https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/1
• https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/1.0.0
• https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/1.4.4