Hi, On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 09:25:48PM +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > Since my experience is only a small data point from the past, I wouldn't > outright discourage the use of restic today but have decided for myself to > prefer other backup tools.
I switched my backup process for 78 hosts to restic back in September and haven't had any issues. I've imported 6 years worth (~990 GiB once compressed and deduped) of backups from the previous system and have had cause to do a few restores of individual files and directories in that time. restic has a pretty active support forum so if anyone experiences any bugs it would be worth reporting and discussing them. I don't use an S3 backend though so don't really have any more to add for the benefit of the OP. As far as I understand, restic's reduced bandwidth usage (and thus cost, for commercial S3 backends) is likely due to the increased amount of client-side caching of repo data that it does compared to borgbackup. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
