[alyandon]

I had a very similar experience with Duplicati on a small (disk space wise) backup set but a very large number of files bloating the sqlite data store.

I use Urbackup to back up Windows and Linux hosts to a server on my home network and then use Borg to back that up for DR. I'm currently in the process of testing Restic now that it has compression and may switch Borg out for that.

[magnetic]

What does restic offer that borg doesn't?

I've been using borg for a while (successfully, with Vorta as UI on mac) and curious to learn if there is something I've been missing that restic provides.

[alyandon]

You probably aren't missing anything unless you are doing ridiculously large amounts of backups. I'm using Borg as a disaster recovery backup of a backup server.

Borg has issues properly maintaining the size of its local cache and that results in RIDICULOUS amounts of ram being consumed at runtime unless I manually clear the cache out periodically. It also brings in some python package for something FUSE related that constantly vomits a warning to the console on each run on Ubuntu.

I'm still not 100% sold on migrating to Restic. It seems to not suffer the same cache or FUSE problem (since it isn't Python) so far but the overall archive sizes seem to be a bit larger than Borg and I have to pay for every byte of storage I consume.

[m3nu]

At BorgBase.com the largest Borg repo we host is about 70 TB. Still manageable with server-side pruning. Mostly larger files from what the user told me.

We just added support for Restic too. Using Nginx with HTTP/2. Fastest combination I've seen so far. So very excited to offer two great options now.

[Dylan16807]

The main thing I was going to mention was deletion but it looks like borg has that now.