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Tarsnap is really slow to restore big files. Just saying in the hope it can help some people.

• mey 9y ago
  It's slow to restore smaller files as well. It is certainly not near-line disaster recovery. Conversely, it has already saved my bacon a few times and I trust it's design.
• Scaevolus 9y ago
  As a tar-based backup system without a separate index, restoring a single file is approximately as expensive as restoring the entire backup. Systems that split metadata and data streams do a lot better (restic, attic, borg, bup).
  • cperciva 9y ago
    Err... Tarsnap does split metadata and data.