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Completely ignoring costs, can you name a single use case for which tarsnap would be better than Borg or restic on rsync.net?

• i_have_an_idea 3y ago
  As a consultant on a DR project, you can increase your billables by 10x due to the extremely slow backup restore speeds.
• doolallylah 3y ago
  Backing up anything Windows with more granularity than top level directories? Ugh. Try picking a choosing specific file types or file extensions from filesystems holding thousands of files. I ended up having to cobble together some god-awful pre-process powershell with multiple pipes just because restic fails to be able to grep using Windows reliably. :(
  • tredre3 3y ago
    > restic fails to be able to grep using Windows reliably That is news to me. I backup almost a million files spread across 4 Windows devices, with heavy use of --files-from and --iexclude and it seems to work. What am I missing? I agree that restic filtering options are pretty limited. Too limited, really. But what's there seems to work?
• rssoconnor 3y ago
  With regards to restic, Tarsnap preforms asymmetric encryption which lets you perform automated backups without needing to enter any passwords (or otherwise storing your encryption passwords in plain text). With regards to duplicity, Tarsnap does full deduplication across all backups for any given "machine", while still letting you independently remove any snapshots you like. i.e. no special "full snapshot" that must always be kept around, and no need for multiple full snapshots that have no deduplication between them.