BorgBackup

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with BorgBackup, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Requires custom scripting and much documentation study to set up correctly2025-09-10
Basic setup steps are obscured; hard to create an unencrypted repository and learn what options do2022-12-28
Filename encoding made a file and later files unrecoverable, with no working way found to restore them2020-09-20
Navigating a mounted backup snapshot is extremely slow, taking seconds for each ls2019-11-28
Reading or monitoring the append-only log is painful, requiring manual tracking of file IDs and dates2019-11-27
Borg could not restore or skip files with unusual characters in names2018-05-04
Mobile site is not very responsive2017-03-13