I’ve noticed one big difference between Restic and Duplicati. This is based on feeling and observation, not source / facts.
- Restic compacts individual files when any file exceeds the deleted data threshold.
- Duplicati compacts while backup, when the backup exceeds the deleted data threshold.
This means that Restic compacts are much more spread out and of course there’s also more churn. Afaik, it would be nice to have option to choose from these. I think it would be useful in my use case, because it would also limit the time individual compaction runs take.
Could there be an option for that?
And of course this doesn’t mean that the transactionality issue wouldn’t need fixing. But it would make it less likely to get “hit”.