Backing up anything Windows with more granularity than top level directories?
Ugh.
Try picking a choosing specific file types or file extensions from filesystems holding thousands of files.
I ended up having to cobble together some god-awful pre-process powershell with multiple pipes just because restic fails to be able to grep using Windows reliably.
> restic fails to be able to grep using Windows reliably
That is news to me. I backup almost a million files spread across 4 Windows devices, with heavy use of --files-from and --iexclude and it seems to work. What am I missing?
I agree that restic filtering options are pretty limited. Too limited, really. But what's there seems to work?
With regards to restic, Tarsnap preforms asymmetric encryption which lets you perform automated backups without needing to enter any passwords (or otherwise storing your encryption passwords in plain text).
With regards to duplicity, Tarsnap does full deduplication across all backups for any given "machine", while still letting you independently remove any snapshots you like. i.e. no special "full snapshot" that must always be kept around, and no need for multiple full snapshots that have no deduplication between them.
