Support SOCKS5 proxy

[makew0rld]

Hello, thanks for creating borg. It's super useful.

It would be helpful if borg supports SOCKS5 proxying. Currently the network I'm in won't allow me to SSH into my backup box, but if I was able to use a SOCKS5 proxy it would work. Thanks!

[ThomasWaldmann]

I am not familiar with ssh + socks5 proxying, but that rather sounds like a ssh configuration issue than a borg issue.

Can you maybe solve it with a specific ssh configuration or ssh commandline options?

[makew0rld]

One option would be to use another machine I have as a jump host, although I'm not sure how to do that with borg. To be specific the network I'm using blocks port 23, which is what Hetzner uses for its storage boxes. This isn't urgent for me because I can just continue my backup when I'm home. But I thought it might be a good question in case there is an easy solution.

[Eskaan]

If you want to use a ssh jumphost, something like this should work:

BORG_RSH="ssh -J user@gateway"