Jan-Lukas Else

Thoughts of an IT expert

Published on 2020-06-27 in 💬 Micro

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restic is my tool of choice to do backups. I’m just eagerly waiting for this a(a)wsome PR to get merged and a new version released! I’m backing up my Nextcloud (currently ~50 GB), but I never pruned the backup and now the backup is taking up more than 160 GB. That’s still just peanuts with Backblaze B2 as online storage, but I like to have things clean and tidy and a prune is overdue.

Tags: Backup, restic

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Jan-Lukas Else restic's prune is much faster now Remember how I told you about a pull request that speeds up the performance of restic’s prune command?restic is my backup tool of choice, it actually saved me from a catastrophic data loss once. I currently use it to backup my VPSs at Hetzner to a Nextcloud / Storage Share instance.Anyway, a new version of restic has been released, which includes this pull request. And a first test confirms the proclamation. prune is now much faster. In a few minutes, I was able to free up a few gigabytes o…
- Jay Tuckey A comment by Jay Tuckey This is super exciting. Restic is an excellent tool. I'm very excited about the --max-repack-size and --Max-unused options. Because I backup to OneDrive the time to repack a data file is very slow, so being able to limit it to only when it's useful is great!