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Borg is great, I actually switched from borg to restic because borg would index everything before backing up the files. Restic starts backing up while indexing is still happening. Not a huge deal normally, but it mattered a lot when it'd take 8+ hours to index lots of tiny files on a couple servers.
I never experienced it been slow.
Normally the hard drives and network is slower the Borg.
Have you reported the use case to the Borg backup developer's?
There were related github issues open, but not opened by me. It wasn't that borg itself was slow, but it was more to do with the number of files being backed up. Even a simple
find . -type fwould take hours. My problem with it was that borg wouldn't start uploading data until that indexing finished.Restic immediately started uploading while it was still indexing so it cut the overall backup time way down.
If it took 4 hours to index files and then 4 hours to upload those files, borg would total 8 hours while restic was only 4 hours total.
This was something like 10TB and hundreds of millions of files though. I never had an issue with borg on smaller datasets.