Discussion Kopia vs Restic

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@ZebCorp

One more observation. After over two years of using Kopia, one of my local backup destination has 2 576 files and 20 508 folders (folder number is growing, empty folder do take a space in the NTFS file system). Restic archive (the same source data set and the similar time span) contains 3 297 files and 261 folders. This is probably a nitpick, but I am bit worried, how Kopia archive will look like in the, say, next 10 years.

Because Kopia use a “3-char folder naming” strategy by default (“6-char” for KopiaUI) while Restic use a “2-char folder naming” strategy, Kopia create significantly more folders than Restic.

Changing “Sharding” strategy for Kopia can reduce folder count, which can boost up speed especially on a remote drive.

Documents about sharding: Sharding | Kopia

My shards option: Repo folder structure suggestion | default .shards option suggestion