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by electroly 698 days ago
I choose restic over borg for the simple reason that restic can back up directly to S3-compatible cloud storage and borg can't. Commodity S3-compatible storage is cheaper than borg-compatible cloud storage. I back up to both B2 ($0.006/GB) and S3 (Intelligent Tiering, ~$0.004/GB) and the two combined are still cheaper than rsync.net ($0.012/GB). I don't see that borg is any better than restic, so this seems to be a straightforward win to me. I'd trust restic with my life. It's among the highest quality software I've ever used.