I'm a new user and found the user documentation rather sparse and had me googling a lot to figure out what is supported and how to do it.
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The docs don't show how to enable compression. The only mention of it is in the FAQ (which just vaguely references a --compression flag, but really you need to initialize it with rustic init --set-compression <N>, which is difficult to find.)
This should be mentioned in the Getting Started guide and Initializing a Repository. It should also be mentioned that the default is no compression.
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There's no message indicating that compression was enabled, nor is it clear how to check if it's enabled on a repository. I believe rustic init should indicate the compression level and it should show up in the config or repoinfo somewhere.
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It's not clear if there is a way to limit the number of threads used by rustic backup. It seems to use a lot of CPU time for the duration of it (which may be hours), which can slow down other tasks, so I'd rather the level of parallelism be configurable.
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It's not clear how to verify if a set of local files (or a local directory) is present and validate it in snapshots. Googling shows there is a rustic diff that may do this, but that should be documented feature.
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Related: Is there something like borgmatic's spot check, i.e., giving it a local directory and telling it to verify x% of it with a snapshot? If not, that would be awesome. I know that rustic check has --read-data-subset but it cannot, AFAICT, take in a local directory as a source.
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--no-cache / no-cache = true should probably be mentioned in the Getting Started guide and "Preparing a new repository > Local backend" for local backends.
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It's not stated what encryption is used.
I'm a new user and found the user documentation rather sparse and had me googling a lot to figure out what is supported and how to do it.
The docs don't show how to enable compression. The only mention of it is in the FAQ (which just vaguely references a
--compressionflag, but really you need to initialize it withrustic init --set-compression <N>, which is difficult to find.)This should be mentioned in the Getting Started guide and Initializing a Repository. It should also be mentioned that the default is no compression.
There's no message indicating that compression was enabled, nor is it clear how to check if it's enabled on a repository. I believe
rustic initshould indicate the compression level and it should show up in the config or repoinfo somewhere.It's not clear if there is a way to limit the number of threads used by
rustic backup. It seems to use a lot of CPU time for the duration of it (which may be hours), which can slow down other tasks, so I'd rather the level of parallelism be configurable.It's not clear how to verify if a set of local files (or a local directory) is present and validate it in snapshots. Googling shows there is a
rustic diffthat may do this, but that should be documented feature.Related: Is there something like borgmatic's spot check, i.e., giving it a local directory and telling it to verify x% of it with a snapshot? If not, that would be awesome. I know that
rustic checkhas--read-data-subsetbut it cannot, AFAICT, take in a local directory as a source.--no-cache/no-cache = trueshould probably be mentioned in the Getting Started guide and "Preparing a new repository > Local backend" for local backends.It's not stated what encryption is used.