Restic 0.8 Prune still very slow

[wscott]

Two-step prune?

Would restic be able to adapt Duplicacy’s two-step strategy for prune to avoid making prune a locking operation? As I write the below I realize I have a weak grasp on how it really works so I am trying to puzzle out the details. Understand that I am probably missing details be missing something. As I understand it, the prune process looks sorta like this: Prunes are run periodically at a period longer than normal backups should take (not sure this restriction is necessary). Locking is only n…