restic

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2019–2024), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with restic, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Getting restic running on a Mac required tinkering with custom scripts2024-10-14
No simple config file, so users must write their own backup scripts2024-10-13
Backups and snapshot listing run far slower than the system's IO rate2024-10-13
Must hand-copy, customize and cron a custom script to schedule backups2024-01-08
Lacks near-realtime continuous backup, a friction point the author calls a dealbreaker2023-09-15
Can't easily pick specific file types or extensions on Windows, forcing a convoluted PowerShell workaround2023-07-27
Restic can't access the other macOS account's data even with root and full disk access2023-06-26
Pruning ran out of RAM and corrupted the backup without clear warning2019-10-31