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.
Re:BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver
by blattimwind on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:46PM
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It's edited.
Re:BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver
by alpaca128 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @01:08AM
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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.
Re:BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver
by blattimwind on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:49PM
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They have been updated; the old screencasts were edited.
Re:BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver
by tenebrisalietum on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:22PM
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is it based on python?
Re:BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver
by hyperion2010 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:53PM
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https://github.com/borgbackup/borg
62% C 35% Python
Re:BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver
by blattimwind on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:20PM
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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.
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.