Comparison with Borg / Shortcomings in Restic?

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For the record, most of the shortcomings mentioned here have been addressed: the code for the archiver and restic prune was rewritten from scratch and we’ve just merged compression support to master, see

Compression support has landed in master!

Hi there, the highly anticipated PR #3666 was just merged, so now there is support for compression in master! This means that the repository format changes for compression are finalized (unless we find something very critical, which I don’t expect). I’d like to especially thank @MichaelEischer, who did most of the work, and all the other people who discussed this large change with us! For now, repository version v2 is not enabled by default, and there is no way (yet) for migrating an ex…