Dan Christensen

I think it should mention borgbackup and give a link.

Borg is special since it's a fork of attic, and I think that fact should be mentioned. I don't think it makes sense to try to enumerate other options, since...

You should really keep separate topics in separate issues, but about the speed: are you mounting a remote file system locally and then backing up to or from it? If...

victorhooi: attic is not based on git. It needs to have a copy of attic running on the remote host, so I don't think it could use Amazon S3 directly....

It shouldn't be too hard to test this experimentally. E.g., on a system with 8GB RAM, create eight 1GB files named `file1` through `file8` as well as a 4GB file...

@ThomasWaldmann I proposed running attic three times. The difference between run 1 and run 2 would exactly show that not flooding the cache gives an improvement for other applications (dd,...

@ThomasWaldmann Since you have both attic and borg with fadvise handy, you could run the three tests I proposed and see if there is a problem.

@ThomasWaldmann Thanks for doing the experiment! Now we know for sure how linux handles DONTNEED (at least for your kernel version). It's really unfortunate that DONTNEED kills things that were...

I should also mention that I don't use encryption with any of these repos.

I have never used break-lock or bypass-lock. I updated the top post to show the correct directories.