Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > I haven't actually tried Borg, but I'm surprised by "slower than rsync, > eat more cpu" because I'd expect it to perform similarly to Bup, and > (for my use case at least) Bup performs incremental backups > significantly faster and using less CPU (especially on the server to > which I send my backups) than the rsync system I used before.
Borg is implemented in Python, which may not be the fastest language. Borg is fast enough for most common use cases, though it may struggle to scale with very large datasets. Backup is a surprisingly complex problem, and every software solution involves trade-offs.
