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Restic: Backups done right

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231 points fanf2 | 1 comments | 13 Oct 24 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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dmw_ng ◴[13 Oct 24 19:02 UTC] No.41830608[source]▶
I'm a restic user, but have resisted the urge to attempt a bikeshed for a long time, mostly due to perf. It's index format seems to be slow and terrible and the chunking algorithm it uses (rabin fingerprints) is very slow compared to more recent alternatives (like FastCDC). Drives me nuts to watch it chugging along backing up or listing snapshots at nowhere close to the IO rate of the system while still making the fans run. Despite that it still seems to be the best free software option around
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1. Svenstaro ◴[14 Oct 24 03:58 UTC] No.41834051[source]▶
You could try running rustic on your repository. It should be a drop-in for restic and maybe it's faster? I would actually be very interested in this. Would be great if you could do that and report back.