[pixelmonkey]

rsnapshot was definitely my favorite Linux option before restic. I find that restic gives me the benefits of chunk-based deduplication and encryption, but via `restic find` and `restic mount` I can also get many of the benefits of rsnapshot's simplicity. If you use `restic mount` against a local repo on a USB3 SSD, the FUSE filesystem is actually pretty fast.

[setopt]

Thanks for the info, I’ll have a closer look at Restic then. Borg also has a FUSE interface, but last time I tried it I found it abysmally slow – much slower than just restoring a folder to disk and then grepping through it. I used a Raspberry Pi as my backup server though, so the FUSE was perhaps CPU bound on my system.

[pixelmonkey]

Yea, I don't want to oversell it. The restic FUSE mount isn't anywhere near "native" performance. But, it's fast enough that if you can narrow your search to a directory, and if you're using a local restic repo, using grep and similar tools is do-able. To me, using `restic mount` over a USB3 SSD repo makes the mount folder feel sorta like a USB2 filesystem rather than a USB3 one.