docs: refresh the comparison table for the 2.4.0 feature set - #180
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Adds six rows covering what landed since v2.3.0 (destination-deletion healing, parallel scanning, OS I/O priority, live exclusion preview, rolling logs plus diagnostics bundle, and the benchmark suite), and re-verifies the competitor cells against current upstream docs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JLB3E2Jm7knNJd37fVpH8X
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Six new rows in "How Driven compares" for what landed since v2.3.0, plus a
re-verification of every competitor cell I touched against current upstream
docs. Docs-only; no code or
site-landing/changes (the landing page has nomirror of this table).
Rows added
Also: a
:grey_question:legend entry ("not documented"), so a closed-sourceclient whose behaviour Google or Backblaze simply does not publish is marked
honestly instead of being guessed at; the intro paragraph now mentions the
priority work; the Features list gains the parallel scanner, the preview, the
priority setting, the remote audit, and rolling logs; and
just benchis inthe recipe list with a pointer to
bench/README.md.On the benchmark numbers
I deliberately quoted no upload throughput from #178. That was a 16 MiB /
300-file smoke run - a pipeline proof, not a verdict - and a headline MiB/s
from it would not survive scrutiny. The two numbers that did make it in are
locally measured and honest at their scale: the exclusion-preview
re-classification (536 ms cached vs 868 ms fresh walk on a 63k-entry tree,
from #177) and the scan thread clamp. The bench suite appears as a row on its
own merits, with the caveats left in
bench/README.md.Competitor claims and where each was verified
Versions checked: rclone 1.74.4, restic 0.19.1, Duplicati 2.3.0.4,
Backblaze Personal Backup 10.0.2, Drive for desktop 128.0.
CPU / I/O priority - nobody else has it. rclone has no priority code and
closed both requests pointing at
ionice(rclone/rclone#864). restic's FAQ answers "How to
prioritize restic's IO and CPU time" entirely with
ionice/nicerecipes(https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html). Duplicati still accepts
--thread-prioritybut the shipping string is "has no effect, use theoperating system controls to set the process priority"
(
Duplicati/Library/Main/Options.csat thev2.3.0.4_stable_2026-07-09tag)notice, so I cited the source, not the doc. Drive for desktop's entire
preference surface is bandwidth rate limits plus pause
(https://support.google.com/drive/answer/13470231), with no priority key in
the admin policy list. Backblaze offers an automatic/manual bandwidth throttle
and an upload-thread count
(https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/configure-performance-settings-windows).
Bandwidth limiting is not I/O priority and the note says so.
Parallel scan. rclone walks at
--checkers(8) and transfers at--transfers(4) (https://rclone.org/docs/). Duplicati'sFileEnumerationProcessis a single serial task with the concurrencydownstream of it, so its walk is a genuine
:x:(source at the stable tag).restic reads at
--read-concurrency, default 2(https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/manual_rest.html). Google and
Backblaze document nothing about scan concurrency - hence the new
"not documented" marker rather than a guessed
:x:.Destination-side deletion. rclone gets a
:white_check_mark:here, not an:x:: it keeps no state, socopy/syncre-list the destination every runand re-transfer anything missing (https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/).
The note says so plainly, including that this is why it is slower on the
incremental case. Drive for desktop is the one that is worse than absent -
"any files you put in the trash are put in the trash everywhere"
(https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375102). Duplicati and restic detect
damage but recovery is operator-driven (Duplicati's
RepairHandler.csrefusesmissing dblock files without
--rebuild-missing-dblock-files; restic'stroubleshooting doc says re-run
backupto heal,https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/077_troubleshooting.html). Backblaze
documents nothing either way, so it is marked not-documented rather than
:x:.Live rule preview - and one claim I had to walk back. Duplicati shipped
server-evaluated inclusion state in its tree UI in 2.3.0.4 on 2026-07-09
(duplicati/duplicati#6955, closing a six-year-old
request, duplicati/duplicati#4194). Six weeks ago
"nobody else has this" would have been true; it is not any more, so Duplicati
gets a
:white_check_mark:and the note records the remaining difference(it marks the nodes you expand, with no whole-source counts). rclone and
restic are
--dry-runonly.Logs and diagnostics. Driven is not unique here and the row shows that:
Drive for desktop and Backblaze both get
:white_check_mark:(https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/drive/capture-google-drive-for-desktop-logs-for-support,
https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/send-logs-to-backblaze-windows).
Duplicati is partial - its "Create bug report" bundle is real, but file
logging is opt-in, warnings-only by default, and unrotated. restic has no
log-file option at all.
Benchmark suite. Negative evidence for all five (repo tree listings plus
code search); the note names Duplicati's unreleased AutoTune harness and
Backblaze's B2-not-client benchmark rather than pretending there is nothing
adjacent.
No existing rows were removed and none had become false. The trailing line
now names the exact versions checked instead of just the month.
Checks
cited (validated by script).
the file already used.
git ls-files --eolreportsw/lf.runs against
ui/srconly), so there is no formatting gate to run.deploy-landing.yml'sTAGLINE_MARKERis the README's first line, which isuntouched.
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