Installing BorgBackup on OpenBSD

BorgBackup is a modern and efficient backup tool that is designed to securely store your data in an encrypted and deduplicated format. Since it is not included in OpenBSD's base system, we will need to install it manually from source.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure that your OpenBSD system has the following packages installed:

• git
• python3
• gcc
• libffi-dev
• openssl-dev

You can install these packages by running the following command as root:

pkg_add git python3 gcc libffi openssl

Installing BorgBackup

To install BorgBackup on OpenBSD, follow these steps:

1. Clone the BorgBackup repository from Github:

   git clone https://github.com/borgbackup/borg.git
   

2. Change into the BorgBackup directory:

   cd borg
   

3. Install the required Python modules:

   python3 -m pip install --user -r requirements.txt
   

4. Build and install BorgBackup:

   python3 setup.py build
   python3 setup.py install --user
   

   Note that --user flag installs the package under your home directory. If you want a system-wide install, drop the --user flag and run the command as sudo or root.

5. Verify that BorgBackup is installed correctly by running:

   borg --version
   

   This should output the version number of BorgBackup.

That's it! You have successfully installed BorgBackup on OpenBSD. You can now use BorgBackup to securely and efficiently back up your data.

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