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borg 1.4 freebsd acl code does not compile on freebsd 13

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The code does not compile on freebsd 13 due to using `acl_extended_link_np` to determine whether a file has ACLs beyond what the normal user/group/mode bits can express. See `src/borg/platform/freebsd.pyx`. So...

vagrant: use libvirt (kvm) rather than virtualbox

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use libvirt/kvm for borg platform testing (see Vagrantfile in our repo). kvm seems to be way faster. also likely more portable (virtualbox is amd/intel x64 only). quite some work though...

borg2 commands: use repo*, not r*

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https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/discussions/7647 as discussed / voted there (voting is / will be open until this ticket is close, so in case you missed it, you can still vote there). Current state...

implement a requirements check somehow?

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See #8309 - is there a good way to get prettier error messages **for expected errors** (like e.g. missing pkg-config or some other system level requirement)?

borgception

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i thought a bit about how to optimize the chunks cache and just wanted to document one weird idea. the issue with the chunks cache is that it needs to...

advanced sparse file support

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See there for the basics: https://github.com/jborg/attic/issues/256 The current state in borg is that it has simple sparse file support (meaning that it does nothing special on "create", but offers the...

windows: github CI broken

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https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/actions/runs/9766803308/job/26960577084?pr=8263

borg2: which commands shall do a complete rebuild of the ChunkIndex?

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For high-latency stores (`sftp:` and a lot of what's available via `rclone:`) a full index rebuild needs to list all objects in the store and there are potentially a lot...

`borg check` with `--verify-data` **and** `--undelete-archives`: In `verify_data`, we do a full pass over all repo objects to verify their cryptographic authenticity. We could build a list of object IDs...