borgbackup 0.x - notes for the Debian end user
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Warning: Still in development
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Please note that while upstream takes care to ensure that you are able to
read back backups written by previous versions (going back to attic,
which borgbackup was forked from), neither the on-disk nor the network
communication format are finalized;  borgbackup is still in development and
has not reached the 1.0 milestone yet.

Make sure to read the upstream README.rst, as well as the HTML documentation
that is included in the borgbackup-doc package, and decide yourself whether
the software already suits your needs.


Network operation
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If you want to use borgbackup across a network, you currently must make
sure that all machines are using a compatible borgbackup version.  Known
incompatibilities are listed in the upstream changelog, a notable example
is 0.28 vs. 0.29.

It is recommended that you use the official Debian backport repositories
from backports.debian.org to upgrade the older versions where needed.
