Hello, I have been looking to use Restic for off-site backups and I was wondering about its behavior with incremental backups. For example, Duplicity has to download every previous backups in order to calculate the delta before creating a new backup. Does restic have a similar behavior or does it…

No, and restic doesn’t do incremental backups in the sense that that term historically applies (master backup plus deltas based on either the master or the last delta). To simplify, when you perform a backup you create a file list (snapshot) of all files that exist at the time of the backup. Each f…

Do incremental off-site backups require to download previous backup(s)?

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cdhowie May 29, 2020, 12:48pm 6

Using the Glacier or GDA tiers with restic is fraught with caveats and expense. I would strongly suggest not using them.

If S3 storage is too expensive, consider using Backblaze B2.