Borg 1.2.x update

[reloxx13]

Describe the issue

Heya,

are there any known problems with borgbackup 1.2.0 ?
I want to use the new import-tar command introduced in 1.2.0 because I'm moving to a new server.
export-tar worked fine, but I cannot find a good explanation about how to import the archive.tar back now.
Current version is borg 1.1.18

weblate/requirements.txt

Line 2 in af3e55f

borgbackup>=1.1.11,<1.3,!=1.2.0

https://www.borgbackup.org/releases/borg-1.2.html

import-tar: New complement to export-tar. Import existing tar files or (together with export-tar) move archives from one borg repo to another. Please note that currently export-tar + import-tar is a lossy conversion as it does not support all metadata that borg create/extract supports (like ACLs, xattrs, flags).

https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/backup.html

Another question: is there a way to merge two Weblate instances? Do you have any hints for me for doing this?
Users, history and memory, etc. doesn't matter, I just want the projects into one.

The project settings are in the database with a persistent ID, I would have projects with the same ID, resulting in conflicts.
My current approach is to choose the smaller Weblate instance and backup every project one by one and restore it in the other one. Or do you have another, better idea?
Edit: i also found this now where the project export/import is suggested: https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/backup.html#project-level-backups

I already tried

• I've read and searched the documentation.
• I've searched for similar issues in this repository.

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[nijel]

are there any known problems with borgbackup 1.2.0 ?

1.2.0 has unspecified dependency on pkgconfig, which causes pip installation fail when pkgconfig is not installed before truing to install borgbackup. This was fixed in 1.2.1.

Another question: is there a way to merge two Weblate instances? Do you have any hints for me for doing this?
Users, history and memory, etc. doesn't matter, I just want the projects into one.

Use project level backups for this.

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[reloxx13]

borg >= 1.2.0 need python 3.8 😵‍💫

[nijel]

Yes, but you don't need > 1.2.0 to run Weblate:

weblate/requirements.txt

Line 1 in 3bc1775

borgbackup>=1.1.11,<1.3,!=1.2.0

For now, Weblate supports Python 3.7, and it will stay as long as we have it in our infra (see #8637).