We’re proud to announce that restic 0.12.0 has been released today! This release packs many speed improvements in several restic commands. For example, we expect that the garbage collection process (restic prune
) will be an order of magnitude faster for almost all users. In addition, you can now configure how much data should be optimized (via --max-repack-size
) and how much unused data is allowed to remain in the repo (via --max-unused
). These flags gives you more control over how long restic prune
will take overall, and also allow you to have several shorter runs of restic prune
instead of a single long one. A special thanks goes out to Alexander Weiss for these indeed awesome improvements in particular, but also to all the other contributors who work on restic!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://restic.net/blog/2021-02-14/restic-0.12.0-released/