Subj : backup for windows pc?
To   : Arelor
From : Deon George
Date : Thu Sep 21 2023 11:28:30

  Re: backup for windows pc?
  By: Arelor to Deon George on Wed Sep 20 2023 06:22 pm

Howdy,

 > I have heard that restic is not officially tested on Windows and that
 > WINdows support is mostly accidental (ie. all its dependencies happen to run
 > on Windows and Go happens to run on Windows, therefore it happens to run on
 > Windows despite the fact development is Linux centri.
 >
 > I have heard some complaints against restic's performance on Windows, but
 > I'd love to hear more comments on this.

That might be true. I rarely use windows - its only running my game server for shits and giggles, and I backed it up with restic.

I dont recall if I've done any restores, with restic.

If backups are slow it wouldnt bother me as I have it running in the background while I do something else. The hardware that runs my Windows is an atom server under VMware, so its slow anyway...

I know it'd be an old version, so I might upgrade it and redo a backup and see how it goes. (Compression in restic only came recently, so I need to ugprade to take advantage of that.)


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