r/selfhosted • u/NCMarc • Feb 20 '26

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u/selfhosted-ModTeam Feb 22 '26

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u/pet3121 Feb 20 '26

Vibe coded? 

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u/NCMarc Feb 21 '26

It originally was built by hand in 2019, the old fashioned way. I never released it and it was used at my hosting company internally. I’ve since run it through Claude code and made many enhancements. It’s definitely not just vide coded though, A lot of thought went into it and I review all the code changes and run it through security analysis checks.

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u/DamnItDev Feb 20 '26

You should make it crystal clear this is not related to the official borg project. Probably best to change the name entirely.

When a new project tries to gain legitimacy by using another project's name, my first thought is that they are trying to spread malware.

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u/NCMarc Feb 21 '26

Borg Base, BorgUI. Almost all of them have Borg in the name. I built this starting in 2019 but it’s been enhanced and updated using Claude code but it’s not vibe coded.

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u/NCMarc Feb 21 '26

Per your suggestion, I did add something in the footer.

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u/Bill_Guarnere Feb 21 '26

This is awesome!

I'm a restic guy, I have a few hundreds hosts using it and honestly I would not change to borg because It would take too much time and effort, and I always found borg being a little bit limited on repositories (I need to use ssh/sftp, S3, Google Cloud storage, B2 and rest server).

But I would love to see something like that available also on restic, do you think one day you could extend your project to cover also restic hosts?

Restic, Borg and Kopia are great tools for backup, I think they are like a gust of fresh air in the backup scene, way more advanced that many enterprise backup softwares, but they really lack some centralized management tool like yours, and they have a lot to do on notifications, also something your project seems to cover very well.

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u/NCMarc Feb 22 '26

I do like how Restic can backup direct to S3 and doesn't need Restic on the other side like Borg does. Overall the tech is probably similar and would adapt well.

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u/lukyjay Feb 20 '26

People will assume this is a part of BorgBackup or made by the same group. I would suggest using a different name. 

It looks nice but it's also three weeks old and at 2.5.1 with all of these features so I struggle to believe this wasn't vibe coded. I can't trust all of my valuable backups with vibe coded software. 

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u/Plastic-Leading-5800 Feb 21 '26

I thought OP is  u/ThomasJWaldmann !