On Sun Feb 05, 2023 at 01:46:35PM +0100, Bjorn Ketelaars wrote:
> On Wed 25/01/2023 09:40, Bjorn Ketelaars wrote:
> > Attached is a port of rustic, which is a backup tool that provides fast,
> > encrypted, deduplicated backups. It reads and writes the restic repo,
> > and can be used as a replacement for restic.
> > 
> > Rustic's backend is limited to local, restic-server and rclone, which is
> > a loose against restic. Advantages of rustic (vs restic):
> > - Allows using cold storage (e.g. AWS Glacier) repos which are only read

Oh nice AWS Glacier support

> >   in the restore command + supports warm-up
> > - All operations are completely lock-free as rustic supoorts
> >   two-phase-pruning (prune option instant-delete is available)
> > - Supports configuration in a config file (example config files)
> > - Huge decrease in memory requirement
> > - Already faster than restic for most operations (but not yet fully
> >   speed optimized)
> > - Cleaner concept of logging output; posibility to write logs to a log
> >   file
> > - rustic repair command allows to repair some kinds of broken
> >   repositories
> > - backup command can use .gitignore files
> > - restore uses existing files; also option --delete available
> > - Snapshots save much more information, available in snapshots command
> > - Allows to save repository options in the repository config file via
> >   the command config
> > - New command repo-info
> > - check command checks and uses cache; option --trust-cache is available
> > - Option prune --fast-repack for faster repacking
> > - Syntax <SNAPSHOT>[:PATH] is available for many commands
> > 
> > Note that rustic currently is in an beta release and misses tests. It is
> > not yet considered to be ready for use in a production environment.

Of course, rust everything and skip the tests. I'll wait.

> > 
> > Comments / OK to import?
> 
> Friendly ping, tarball enclosed for your convenience.
> 
> OK to import?

OK rsadowski

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