From f9dded83b30c9da96ea821908208706b06d7e270 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Gibson Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 22:42:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc/050_restore.rst: Mention that restic restore is fastest Especially with lots of files (like when backing up git repos), restic mount + cp -r can be really slow. --- doc/050_restore.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/050_restore.rst b/doc/050_restore.rst index b0ea021cc..47a1be003 100644 --- a/doc/050_restore.rst +++ b/doc/050_restore.rst @@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ hard links from a fuse mount should be done by a program that preserves hard links. A program that does so is ``rsync``, used with the option --hard-links. +.. note:: ``restic mount`` is mostly useful if you want to restore just a few + files out of a snapshot, or to check which files are contained in a snapshot. + To restore many files or a whole snapshot, ``restic restore`` is the best + alternative, often it is *significantly* faster. + Printing files to stdout ========================