[borgbackup] borgbackup 0.25.0 released

[Thomas Waldmann]

Moin Marc,

> thanks for keeping the development running. A few questions about
> compression: Is there any reason why xz compression is not (yet)
> supported?

It is, see "lzma".

> Is the compression done on the client or on the server?

Client-side (must be first compressed, then encrypted, then transmitted).

> And while I'm asking, are there plans to add a connection scheme that
> allows the TCP connection to go from the server (the machine holding
> the actual backup) to the client (the machine being backed up)? There
> are places with a security policy that says "no connections to the
> backup server". One possible solution would be a "ssh
> -R10222:localhost:22 client borg create foo" with the repository being
> on "localhost:10022" so that the connection from the client to the
> server is tunneled through the outgoing ssh session from the server.

Well, sounds interesting.

Doesn't help 100% against the "hacked production server" issue (see that
ticket in the issue tracker), though, as at specific times, the client
will be able to connect to the server (through localhost:10022) and do
whatever it wants, right?

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