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Swap is indeed supposed to prevent this AFAIK. You can though try some tools like EarlyOOM and see if it helps : https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom

You can also take a look at Kopia (https://kopia.io/).

I've been using Borg, Restic and Kopia for a long time and Kopia is my personal favorite - very fast, very efficient, runs in the background automatically without having to schedule a CRON or anything like that.

Only downside is that the backups are made of a HUGE number of files, so when synchronizing it can sometimes take a bit of time to check the ~5k files.

I've had quite the opposite experience in fact. You can find numerous topics on places like r/rust where people talk about the downsides of the language compared to others (for instance).

Many reasons actually. The tooling is excellent (builtin package manager, test suite handling, etc.) The language itself is also very good in that it prevents you from doing many mistakes you'd do in other languages. It's hard to show an example when you don't know Rust at all, but usually Rust programs tend to have less bugs than others.

That being said, there are also downsides - apart from the steep learning curve, compilation is pretty slow and the language itself isn't as good as some others for prototyping - if you make something simple and want to go fast, then maybe TypeScript will do a better job, despite its numerous problems.

Rust is more about robustness and correctness (and performance of course). If these are not appealing to you, then sure some other languages like Java, Go, C#, TypeScript or others can do the job.