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Backup my notebook with Restic

Restic Backup is a very easy to setup tool, providing different targets.
In my case I just back up to an external disk.

You can see the first backup takes quite a while. But incremental backups will only backup new and changed files into the new snapshot.
Here is an example of a first and additional snapshot.

In contrast to Borg Backup, Restic supports VSS snapshots on Windows, which makes it work nicely with Domino 12.0.2 VSS Writer support.

My demo at Engage will include Restic. Because I have demoed Veeam backup and Borg Backup already a couple of times.

You will see how nicely Restic and Domino integrate. And how good the dedup and compression works.

-- Daniel


First Run

restic -r f:\restic backup --verbose --use-fs-snapshot d:\

repository 3d875493 opened (version 2, compression level auto)
lock repository
no parent snapshot found, will read all files
load index files
start scan on [d:\]
start backup on [d:\]
creating VSS snapshot for [d:\]
successfully created snapshot for [d:\]
scan finished in 91.647s: 372264 files, 272.482 GiB

Files:       372264 new,      0 changed,     0 unmodified
Dirs:         39594 new,      0 changed,     0 unmodified
Data Blobs:  538693 new
Tree Blobs:   38792 new
Added to the repository: 247.730 GiB (160.336 GiB stored)

processed 372264 files, 272.482 GiB in 1:00:39
snapshot 41e20b2f saved



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Second Run


restic -r f:\restic backup --verbose --use-fs-snapshot d:\
open repository
repository 3d875493 opened (version 2, compression level auto)
lock repository
using parent snapshot 41e20b2f
load index files
start scan on [d:\]
start backup on [d:\]
creating VSS snapshot for [d:\]
successfully created snapshot for [d:\]
scan finished in 131.864s: 372270 files, 272.482 GiB

Files:           6 new,   106 changed, 372158 unmodified
Dirs:            1 new,    56 changed, 39538 unmodified
Data Blobs:   6178 new
Tree Blobs:     57 new
Added to the repository: 5.441 GiB (1.825 GiB stored)

processed 372270 files, 272.482 GiB in 6:36
snapshot 7587810d saved

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