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Resric is great but the lack of empty passwords, and the response by the developer about it is very grating: https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1786 https

• aborsy 3y ago
  It’s a good idea to enforce passwords for security. The features of backups done right are incremental backup, snapshot, deduplication, encryption and compression.
• BrandoElFollito 3y ago
  This is the exact reason why I do not use restic. This is a backup tool, not a security one. The fact that the author does not understand this is a real problem and a red flag.
• bandyaboot 3y ago
  He very politely said he thinks it’s better to keep the password requirement in place and was deciding to do that. What’s grating about that? Personally, I think his concern about users mistakenly not setting a password could be alleviated with an explicit —insecure flag, or similar.