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I had never heard of borg backup, seems like a great backup tool.

Now, I just installed it on my mac and running `borg --help` takes about 5 seconds before outputting the help.

Same for any other `borg ...` command.

I'm not quite sure why, but that's the only command I've noticed to be running slow on my system.

I'm running borg 1.1.10.

That's the Python interpreter and all the dependencies starting up. Shouldn't really matter if you are using it as a chron job.

I see. The screencast on their website made it seem very fast (which it may have been on a beefier machine than mine?), so I was surprised.

It's edited.

Pretty sure it's not.

I've never seen borg take 5+ seconds for anything except creating backups. The same `borg --help` command finishes in 0.4s on my machine. That's not blazing fast either but I'm okay with it.

They have been updated; the old screencasts were edited.

is it based on python?

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg

62% C 35% Python

3% magic?

Most of the C code is vendored third party libraries, there are only 2000-3000 lines of C that are actually part of the project.

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