How to set the Min/Max Pack Size?

[durval]

@durval

Question: the way I understand it, restic forget is pretty fast – but would it suffice to bring memory consumption during restic backup down ? Or would I need to do a restic prune

@cdhowie

No. forget only removes snapshot files. It doesn’t remove any objects.

@cdhowie

Yes, you would need to prune.

Ouch! this is going to be painful…

UPDATE: seems that not doing restic forget plus restic prune periodically will also make restic backup run progressively slower – I’ve created a new topic to discuss this, please see it here.