/borg-gtk

GTK+ frontend for borg backup that doesn't use the JSON API (DISCONTINUED)

Primary LanguagePythonBSD 2-Clause "Simplified" LicenseBSD-2-Clause

THIS PROGRAM IS DISCONTINUED, UNSTABLE AND INCOMPLETE. DO NOT USE IT FOR YOUR BACKUPS! ONLY USE IT TO TEST THIS PROGRAM.

borg-gtk

borg-gtk is a GTK+ frontend for the borg backup utility. The project has been stopped as there's now an official API for borg.

Commands wrapped by this program:

  • init
  • info
  • list (repository and archive)
  • create
  • delete

According to ctime, This project was started as early as 17/3/2016

Screenshots

Implementation

borg-gtk uses an unstable approach for a front-end as it imports the borg python code and uses it directly, rather than using the JSON API. This is because it was written almost a year before the JSON API was created, and using a subprocess was too limited and slow.

Added Features

With access to the borg code directly, borg-gtk adds features not present in borg. For example:

  • A real progressbar for creating an archive, shows which files to process, and which are pending
  • 'Opening' a repository and doing multiple operations in one go, as if it's a borg shell.
  • Calculating the size and compressed size of folders in archives

Usage

Run the following:

$ cd ./src
$ ./main.py

Note: This will create a borg-gtk.json file in ~/.cache

It's incomplete, why share it?

  • The added features could prove to be beneficial for the main borg project.
  • Those who want to create a front-end for borg may also find this useful.

Why not continue the project?

  • The API is too limited to provide some of the added features currently in the project.
  • Continuing with my implementation is a bad idea as it's officially unsupported.
  • Supporting the new API will require a complete rewrite
  • Gtk+ was probably a bad choice. Qt has better cross-platform support.