At Hostinger, we prioritize the safety of consumer knowledge and the environment friendly operation of our knowledge infrastructure. As a part of our dedication, we just lately performed an in-depth evaluation evaluating two fashionable knowledge backup options: Borg and Restic. 

On this weblog publish, we’ll discover the efficiency variations between them, highlighting Restic as the choice for shared internet hosting consumer backups.

Retailer Extra With Much less

Each Restic and Borg make the most of deduplication. The distinction lies of their implementation of the backup service. With Borg, every person has a devoted backup repository, leading to potential knowledge duplication throughout repositories. Restic, alternatively, opts for a shared repository method, the place a selected group of customers shares an S3 bucket. This considerably enhances deduplication alternatives, as evident from our findings.

We in contrast the common repository sizes for each Restic and Borg backups. Within the Netherlands, the common 100-user Restic repository dimension was 127.07 GiB, whereas the common single-user Borg repository dimension was 2.08 GiB. This means Restic’s potential for extra environment friendly storage utilization.

We additionally in contrast the storage effectivity of Restic and Borg backups at completely different knowledge facilities. Restic’s efficiency was spectacular, requiring solely round 58% of the space for storing Borg must retailer the identical quantity of consumer knowledge. 

Elements equivalent to knowledge replication contribute to this consequence – Restic advantages from storage optimization methods like erasure coding at bigger knowledge facilities. As compared, every of our Borg backup servers relied on conventional Raid methods. 

In the end, Ceph-based backuping is extra dependable and extra environment friendly – actually, storing extra with much less.

Bytes per Byte

Transferring backups over the community is a essential facet to contemplate. Our evaluation reveals that each Restic and Borg carry out equally relating to knowledge site visitors. As an illustration, at a rising knowledge middle like ours in India, the weekly site visitors for Restic and Borg accounted for roughly 7-8% of the area taken up by all recordsdata on all servers.

Say Goodbye to Errors

In contrast to Borg, Restic repositories confirmed no circumstances of corruption in our evaluation. Furthermore, migrating from Borg to Restic proved seamless from the client-side perspective, permitting for the reuse of current Borg backup servers within the Ceph infrastructure.

Pace Issues in Enterprise

Whereas Restic used barely extra CPU and RAM, it stood out with quicker backup creation occasions. The typical was roughly 111.517 seconds, in comparison with Borg’s 211.332 seconds. This elevated velocity not solely improves general effectivity but additionally ensures well timed backups.

Conclusion

At Hostinger, we love optimization. We search the best options, and Restic has confirmed itself. It gives greater deduplication charges, improved storage effectivity, quicker backup creation occasions, and is extra dependable than comparable options. 

We’ll proceed actively monitoring the efficiency of our tech stack and preserve you up to date with upcoming weblog posts. Depart a remark you probably have any questions or considerations relating to Restic or our expertise.