Re: Unanticipated time and costs for full recovery

[jacob@larsen.net]

On 2025-08-13 10:17, Tomaž Šolc via tarsnap-users wrote:

> I'm not sure if these download rates are a technical limitation or 
> downloads are throttled by country or average monthly spend or 
> something, but maybe it's something that should be displayed as 
> prominently on the website as the download and storage prices.


I once wrote a Python script to try and run this restore process more in 
parallel. It basically lists all the files, sorts by size and separates 
in a number of buckets of as equal size as possible. It then initiates N 
restore processes of the lists of files, to run it in parallel. This 
will have some overhead, so it is likely an expensive option to restore 
data, but it has the potential to be faster (but worst-case is not 
great). I am due for a recovery test, so I will probably get to evaluate 
this a bit closer soon.

/Jacob