The restore process takes forever and sometimes fails. Last time I was forced to try every daily backup to several days before last backup to find one that could actually be restored. I have switched to borg (using Pika Backup for desktop and Borgmatic for servers). No restores have failed since.

You should check out https://solidproject.org/ and see how much overlap you have?

Borgmatic also made setting up Borg a breeze.

Mods are humans. Humans are flawed. What does this have to do with Lemmy?

See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324 and https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7168. Then take a look at the dates the RFCs were published :)