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Long timeouts in restic and resticprofile when using restic-server

At home I have a restic-server running, which serves as one of the backup destinations for backups (among several other destinations). Over time I found that there is a small problem in this setup: when I am traveling, the backup kicks off - and needs a long time to finish when the repository is not available. The backup process runs into long timeouts, and on top of that, restic keeps the laptop from going to sleep.

Remove files from a restic backup (using resticprofile)

Sometimes files end up in a backup where they don't belong. It happens. While I'm a big advocate of having backups, sometimes entries need to be removed from a backup. This is easy to do in Restic, using resticprofile.

Restic backup

Was asked quite a few times how I do my backups with Restic.

For more than 10 years I was using “Duplicity” forĀ backups, but in 2019 I changed to Restic. The main reason for the change was that Duplicity still can’t handle “Big Data”, as in: larger directories. In 2009 someone opened an issue on the Duplicity bugtracker, and this problem still exists as of today. For about two years I was shifting around the problem, excluding files, trying to make the sigfile smaller. But at some point I decided that it is enough and I need to change the tool.