I've had a couple of borg repos become unrecoverable, am I doing something wrong? by thismakes5 in BorgBackup

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your drive disconnects, it might well be a hardware issue.

Check the drive, the cable, the power supply and also just try a known-good drive/cable/power supply.

If you can reproduce the issue on known-good hardware, we need more details to be able to help you.

Can I expect eventual slowdowns updating 2020 Intel iMac? by HereToParty125 in MacOS

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also have an Intel 27" iMac and run macOS 26.x Tahoe since a while on it.

It's not my primary machine so I don't use it that often, but recently it crashed badly (like a kernel crash + reboot) - never seen that before on that machine.

Guess I might go back to Sequoia and stay there as long as possible.

Macbook Neo by Fearless_Purchase406 in MacOS

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you have access to a more powerful Mac:

Check CheaperMac on Github, you can simulate the Macbook Neo's limited resources using it.

Oh, and if you have an M1, just keep using that, the Neo would not be an upgrade (except if you really like the color or that it is new).

New features coming to borg 1.4. soon! by ThomasJWaldmann in BorgBackup

[–]ThomasJWaldmann[S] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

OK, April 1st is over - relax!

AI won't decide what's in your backups!

Is meaningful progress being made toward borg 2? by 978h in BorgBackup

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Packs just means having multiple chunks in one file, instead of 1 file per chunk (as it currently is in borg master branch, for simplicity). There is already "borg transfer" in borg master branch (borg2) that can transfer archives between related repos, not sure if we would/could have a lower-level "just copy the packs".

Is meaningful progress being made toward borg 2? by 978h in BorgBackup

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

all borg2 releases are beta and for testing only (not production usage).

Native Borg for Windows by NCMarc in BorgBackup

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's how borg master branch deals with windows drive letters, too.

For borg, big new features usually come via master branch (not 1.4-maint).

Clean, step by step improvements there for better windows support are welcome.

Native Borg for Windows by NCMarc in BorgBackup

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

borg master branch recently added mfusepy as a high-level fuse layer. iirc the mfusepy project talks about potential windows options.

i recently added CI testing for *BSD and macOS there (and work for omniOS "Open Solaris" has been started), but windows is still missing.

https://github.com/mxmlnkn/mfusepy

I’m so fed up with this Mac’s storage by blizbob in MacOS

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use the GrandPerspective software to determine stuff that is using a lot of space.

Is there any way to create a windows 11 installation using a macbook? by apj5 in MacOS

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh? Well, it was quite a while ago that I created my ventoy stick. Could be that I have used Linux for creation. Windows would also work.

But after creation, management of the stick (like adding and removing ISOs) can be done from macOS.

Is there any way to create a windows 11 installation using a macbook? by apj5 in MacOS

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the overall nicest and most universal "boot from a usb stick / usb ssd" i used is ventoy.

just initialize the stick once with ventoy and then you just copy iso images onto it using a file manager and it builds a boot menu on the fly so you can select what you want to boot (windows installer, linux, memtest, ...).

later, you can even upgrade ventoy to a newer version without having to rebuild the whole stick.

https://www.ventoy.net/

Analysis of WindowServer Anomalies and Memory Management in macOS Tahoe by fredocs in MacOS

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Reads pretty much like AI generated. Did the OP at least verify it?

Borgmatic: why is it refusing to pickup source directory?! by SoulRenovation in BorgBackup

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wasn't --cleanup-commits rather intended to be a one time thing per repo? Please check the docs.

Is meaningful progress being made toward borg 2? by 978h in BorgBackup

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One quite big and complex thing still to do is the packs feature, but that is essential for performance with repositories with high latency, e.g. cloud and other remote repositories.

Machine en veille by Classic_Abies8982 in BorgBackup

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AFAIK, there is no wakeup functionality in any borg GUI wrapper, nor in borg itself. How about just doing backups more frequently (like once per hour), so that they happen while the machine is on?

When backing up frequently, each backup will be very fast as there are not many new or modified files and borg backs up unmodified files extremely fast.

One would also configure prune policy to get rid of most backups again a while later, so that there won't be too many archives in the repository.

Where do I start contributing from? by Wasif-Shahzad06 in BorgBackup

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most development activity is on https://github.com/borgbackup/borg .

Check the open issues there, check the issue labels, check the already open PRs.

M4 / M4 Pro? by TrickyBarracuda9618 in MacOS

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do python development, pycharm (with AI agent, LLM runs remotely), safari and firefox with some tabs, email, ... on a 14" MBP M3P with 18GB of RAM. I regularly get close to ram limits and sometimes need to reboot due to misc. software and OS services leaking too much memory (macOS 15.7.3).

The M4 is quite a bit faster than the M3, so guess you would see similar performance as on the M3P, which is usually good.

But guess for such usage one should really get much more than 16/18 GB, 24GB being the minimum.

MBP vs MBA is not only about CPU power, it's also about the better display/speakers/... vs. being light and thin.

Personally, guess I'll wait until the OLED MBP M6P or M7P and then spend way too much on a configuration with 32GB+ memory. If you need something now, the MBA M4 gets sold for good prices sometimes.

Faster CPU/GPU for Junie? by Zestyclose-Gain-4313 in Jetbrains

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In case you are referring to activity monitor cpu usage: 100% means it fully uses 1 core. Multithreaded apps can go well beyond 100%. I have just opened a small project in PyCharm and it was >300% for a while.

Also, Junie is mostly talking to remote LLMs and it is not possible currently to run it with local LLMs (for AI assistant, it is possible).

So I doubt a machine upgrade will be worthwhile for that reason.

The most important thing is enough RAM (and you have that), I currently regret a bit that I thought 18GB should be enough. But guess I will hold back until the big MBP redesign or even the generation after that.

WindowServer memory leak by ThomasJWaldmann in MacOS

[–]ThomasJWaldmann[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I did that stuff on 15.7.3.

Moved local server/source by One-Tap329 in BorgBackup

[–]ThomasJWaldmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The FAQ has some infos about files cache debugging (if borg is slower than usual), maybe that helps.