Add Windows support

[lucassz]

Documentation mentions that Vorta could support Windows, but that Borg doesn't. Apparently now it does -- I'm not sure if the documentation just needs to be changed, or if any small changes need to be made in order for Vorta to support Windows.

[Hofer-Julian]

To me this reads more like there are people currently working on it. Not at all like borg already supports Windows.

[ThomasWaldmann]

Yeah, as @Hofer-Julian says.

borg does not support running under native windows yet, but it works within cygwin or WSL.

[FabianKnapp]

Yeah, as @Hofer-Julian says.

borg does not support running under native windows yet, but it works within cygwin or WSL.

So is it possible to backup files on windows NTFS partition within WSL?

[m3nu]

Should be possible, as Windows makes all drives accessible under /mnt/c, etc.

It's on my todo-list to actually test it but from what I saw on Borg's Github it should work.

Found some more details here: https://superuser.com/questions/1114341/windows-10-ubuntu-bash-shell-how-do-i-mount-other-windows-drives

[erotavlasme]

Borg 1.0.11 already works well under windows 10 64 bit. It is available via chocolatey package.

[Ramblurr]

I've done some basic tests of Borg on windows 10 via chocolatey, and it works fine. Next step is definitely getting a Vorta windows build, then I can retire the other kludgy backup systems my family uses.

[ThomasWaldmann]

Seems like the chocolatey borg is still at 1.0.10, which is rather old.

The borg collective is still working on native windows support (not released yet).

Current borg releases (preferably 1.1.latest) can be used with cygwin or wsl on windows machines.

[m3nu]

Some changes related to this: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21263377/microsoft-windows-10-linux-gui-apps-gpu-acceleration-wsl-features

[jucor]

@Ramblurr , do you know who's the maintainer of the Borg package on chocolatey, please? Could you tag them here, maybe?

[JBlond]

The link is https://package.chocolatey.org/profiles/ARCHer

[jucor]

Thanks @JBlond . Sorry, it was right there on the page, I should have seen that. I've contacted the maintainer, pointing him to this thread, see if he wants to chime in and/or update his package.

[ojaksch]

I'm the maintainer of borgbackup for chocolatey but not coder of it, which is Billy Charlton.
I did the choco package because of "better old than nothing" - we should whether wait for an official version of borgbackup for windows or ask Billy/someone to update it. Would be glad to update choco's package for you Windows users.

[m3nu]

Cool. With a working Borg.exe, we can probably package Vorta (which is written in Qt) for Windows eventually.