On 2025-12-21, Gareth Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. Restic has resulted in much reduced bandwidth in > comparison to borg + rclone (where I gather rclone is the culprit) but > is, as you say, reported to be less efficient on that front than plain > Borg.
I think he said the exact opposite. I just started using restic on an S3 backend. Easy to set up. I like how you can mount snapshots locally and browse at your leisure. Of course, if you can't restore reliably, all bets are off. > Your experience is reassuring.
