Restic 0.19.0 speeds up index loading

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Restic 0.19.0 speeds up index loading

Version 0.19.0 of the Go-based restic backup tool has been released, introducing significantly faster index loading and lower memory usage across major commands. This update requires Go 1.25 or newer and adds platform-specific improvements like iCloud exclusion support on macOS Sonoma and corrected NTFS permission inheritance on Windows.

// ANALYSIS

Restic 0.19.0 introduces substantial optimization and robustness updates, focusing on memory efficiency and index speed. The bump in the Go version requirement to Go 1.25 aligns restic with modern toolchain capabilities, while platform-specific fixes resolve long-standing friction points for cross-platform deployments.

–Decreasing memory consumption for check, copy, diff, and stats commands is critical for running backups on resource-constrained nodes or large repositories.
–Restoring ACL inheritance correctly on Windows and avoiding iCloud placeholder downloads on macOS Sonoma make the tool significantly more native and efficient on non-Linux hosts.
–Aggressively pruning small pack files by default reduces storage fragmentation and API request overhead in cloud backends.

// TAGS

backupgodeduplicationencryptioncloud-storageopen-source

DISCOVERED

1h ago

2026-06-11

PUBLISHED

1h ago

2026-06-11

RELEVANCE

8/ 10

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