Alexander Neumann

Hey, thanks for bringing this to our attention, and especially for taking the time to do a detailed write-up! We have a bit of documentation which metadata restic archives (and...

Yep, scaling is hard. One of the issues we currently have is that the index (which blobs are stored where) is loaded into RAM. Our plans to improve are: *...

> Also, thank you so much for restic! It is the best backup program I've ever used. Thank you, such comments make my day :) > and running the part...

@pzmarzly I'm sorry if this sounds blunt, but I'm going to be direct here :) While I appreciate the suggestion (I'm familiar with what `mmap` does and what it's used...

You can do that, please let me know if you find anything interesting. I already know that there's plenty of memory to be garbage collected (I've done some tests myself),...

@xacrimon oh, that's very interesting! Can you describe what you saw, and what makes you think it's the GC? There was an article in the Gopheracademy Advent series about problems...

What do you mean by "freed"? It is normal that memory the GC detected as "not in use any more" is not instantly given back to the OS. Sometimes Linux...

Hm, nice idea! I don't have time to look at it right now though, I'll probably do that later. Thanks for reporting the idea! I'm aware that the `restore` command...

There are several problems with supporting ignore files: * Which syntax would they be? * Do we support all ignore files? Then we'd need to come up with an implementation...

Thanks for taking the time to submit this idea. To be honest, I'm not convinced this is a good thing to add for restic. It makes the (already complex) code...