CERN is testing restic for their backups

Hi @nicab

The system is performing really well, is not our main backup system yet, but if everything is going like now, probably we will mark it as ‘production’ during this year. The restore machinery is also there so the users will be able to restore files by themselves.

Now we have 18k users (86% of total users) backed up daily using restic v0.9.6 (upstream version, no custom code), processing around 70M files/11T daily. Currently we are keeping a total of 560T of S3 storage (we apply prune every two days). I’ll participate next week in the 4th EOS Workshop at CERN, where I will give an quick update on the project and as always spread the word about restic beautifulness :blush:

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