Comparison with Borg / Shortcomings in Restic?

Ok, I did a backup with both restic and borg.

Versions used

  • restic: 0.9.5 compiled with go1.12.2 on linux/amd64
  • borg: 1.1.9

Backup size

I forgot two subvols but backup-ed 20 btrfs subvols and /boot and /boot/efi. Size of data to backup was: 1259GiB

I should add that both repositories are on an external USB HD.

Elapsed time

  • restic: 5h:21m:21sec
  • borg: 7h:27m:28secs

Size of repositories

  • restic: 1054GiB
  • borg: 950GiB

So we have a savings of approx. 104GiB.

I will do a second round of backup to see how the elapsed times will be.

Second run

  • restic: 10m:01.86s
  • borg: stopped after 1.5h. It seems there is a bug and it is re-adding all files
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