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benbjohnson
Re-implement Windows support
Hi. I'm looking into integrating this in uptime-kuma, but currently this does not build on Windows, which is a pretty significant portion of the users. Would be great if this gets officially supported again. Thanks!
Edit: looks like #369 may already fix this, if so you can disregard.
Hi @chakflying, issue #369 is just including support for fsnotify (which itself supports Windows). I don't have any immediate plans to re-add Windows support but I'll leave this issue open. It's mostly that I lack the expertise and time to actually have this run well on Windows.
@benbjohnson Assuming the fsnotify is fixed for windows, what are the the other blockers for Windows ? If they can be listed we can get some light / eyeballs on them.
There aren't any large technical hurdles for Windows support but the usage numbers for Windows are quite small and I didn't feel comfortable releasing and maintaining the Windows code since CI is not setup to run it. It ended up being a lot of little hassles in order to try to support a small number of users.
thanks @benbjohnson
i am using litestream on desktops and hoping to use on Windows. But yeah i see your point about lack of users on Windows.
The reason i asked if there are currently well known blockers was only to get an LOE gut instinct for how much of a PITA Windows will be.
First I wanted to thank @benbjohnson and the community for a useful and great project. I am working in a small group that develops services on top of windows 10/11/Server. I find that the project suits our needs. The only worry that I have is that future versions will not support windows.
I really hope that you will consider returning the windows support (maybe in a lower release rate) so all of us who still use it will be able to enjoy the litestream project
Yes, thanks @benbjohnson and the community. I was planning to use litestream on Windows EC2 instances. Looks like it's best for me to have a stab at compiling the sources myself and wrapping the output in TopShelf to form a windows service.
Also am interested in running on windows . Will be happy to help if needed .
Hi,
I am running Litestream on Windows through source compilation and was able to successfully replicate the db file.
But, one interesting observation was that when I replicated my DB file from Windows machine to S3, I was only able to restore it on Windows machine but was not able to restore on Mac OS. And same behaviour when I replicate on Mac OS and try to restore it on Windows.
Is this expected or am I missing something? Appreciate any help on this and also not sure if I should be moving this discussion to a different thread.
@arjunpola What error are you seeing? I wouldn't expect that restores on a different OS to make a difference.
hey everybody, would making Litestream available as a runtime-loadable extension work on the Windows side? I'm not much of a Windows developer and trying to do testing and debugging was difficult and time consuming. Maybe an extension would be an easier approach.
@arjunpola What error are you seeing? I wouldn't expect that restores on a different OS to make a difference.
no matching backups found
I get the above error when I try to restore on MacBook a database that is backed from Windows. But, I realised the versions of litestream were different and for some reason it had not created a generation file. After updating to the latest release. The issue was resolved.
@benbjohnson Thanks a lot :)
Windows support should work again if built from git. If anyone in this issue could confirm it works fine I'll close this.
It's not supported right now because there's no Windows maintainer but it at least builds for now.
I am using litestream on windows. Built from source and it works all fine.