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Restic looked interesting - I would never have guessed it didn't support such a fundamental feature as compression?! So thanks for mentioning this and saving me

Restic looked interesting - I would never have guessed it didn't support such a fundamental feature as compression?! So thanks for mentioning this and saving me from wasting my time. Note: I'm not trying to be horrible or disrespectful to the Restic devs; it's just that backup without compression is a complete show-stopper, especially if you want to use cloud storage (where storage space, storage operation, and bandwidth all eat money).

dunham 5y ago
There can be security issues when using encryption on top of compression. These attacks have been used against HTTPS. I don't know if they apply to this specific case, but I assumed that the restic developers were being extra paranoid.
- GordonS 5y ago
  Sure, that's intrinsic when combining encryption with compression - but it shouldn't be a reason not to make compression optional!
- aborsy 5y ago
  Known plaintext attacks aren’t much relevant in backup context.
OJFord 5y ago
It does block-wise (restic definition, file chunks, not disk) de-duplication, so it's not as bad as you are perhaps imagining.
- Fazel94 5y ago
  In my experience, the deduplication on SQL dumps is way inferior to borg, even without the compression.