- NOTHING is copied to your disk when you mount. What you get is a “virtual file system” which shows what is in your repo. If you want something locally, you need to copy.
- You need to decide your level of “paranoia”, if only one backup at Backblaze is good enough for you.
- FUSE makes it possible for non-root users to mount stuff. And it is a way of representing stuff which are not a regular file system, which is the case with restic mount. Your backup is a bunch of files which in no way have a one-to-one relationship with the files you backed up, but restic mount is doing some “magic” to show you the files and folders as they were at the time of your backup.
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