make it possible to "serve" a borg repository

[wnhre2ur8cxx8]

I thought this was the point of the plugin, but I dont see a way how to do it.

It would be nice to have some way to make the repository accessible for other clients so they can backup to my NAS.

[wnhre2ur8cxx8]

Maybe a way to do it would be to add "borg --serve" or something as a possible shell to choose when creating a user?

[ryecoaaron]

The plugin was designed to backup content on the omv system to a local or remote borg repo. You could create a repo and backup from a client to that repo via ssh.

I’ve never used borg serve even though I do backup to remote borg repos. Looking at the borg docs, borg serve still uses ssh. I guess I will have to read more to see what that is actually providing.

[NovaViper]

So, the plugin isn't designed to host a borg repo?

[ryecoaaron]

Yes, it is hosting a borg repo. It was designed to backup content on the OMV server to additional locations on the OMV or
to a remote server with borg installed. It just isn’t running a “server”. You can still create archives in a repo created by the plugin via ssh. Borg uses ssh even if running a “server”. I have looked at the borg serve command but I still don’t understand how using it would be any different.

[wnhre2ur8cxx8]

It is basically a security feature. A command you add to your "authorized-keys" file so clients that backup to your server are not allowed to do anything else than connecting to the borg repo. I was a bit unsure on how the workflow of OMV works when I created the issue. But basically I thought it would be nice to have a possibility in the gui to add a repo thats purpose is to be accesible via ssh for a seperate user. So that would include choosing a user that owns the repo, adding a public key to authoriz and adding the borg serve command correctly in the authorized-keys file. Maybe thats a bit overkill for the extension, since most of the stuff is added to the user. I dont know how extensions are supoosed to modify the system and if this is in the scope of the extension.

Thing is, that I was not really able to add the needed configs in the gui, especcially the restriced authorized-keys stuff. So maybe think about if this is possible and worth it :) thanks anyway for working on this extension!