Those are usually more expensive and don’t do HDR.

Lattepanda mu is apparently a very powerful alternative.

I know, but I’d say ppl on Linux tend to not use it.

Right, I usually do that or lz4.

On windows.

With restic you can pipe to stdin, so I use mysqldump and pipe it to restic:

mysqldump --defaults-file=/root/backup_scripts/.my.cnf --databases db-name | restic backup --stdin --stdin-filename db-name.sql

The .my.cnf looks like this:

[mysqldump]
user=db-user
password="databasepassword"

I find it very a very romantic notion to have unknown areas on the world. Like some desert in the far south, beyond which might lie anything.