autorestic VS resticprofile

I really like restic, and am personally happy to use it via the command line. It's very fast and efficient! However, I do wish there was better tooling / wrappers around it. For example, Pika Backup is a popular UI for Borg of which no equivalent exists for Restic. I'd love to be able to set something simple up on my partner's Macbook.

For my own purposes, I've been using a script I found on Github[0] for a while, but it only really supports Backblaze B2 AFAIK.[1]

I've been meaning to try autorestic[2] and resticprofile[3] as they are potentially more flexible than the script I'm currently using, and prestic[4] looks intriguing for my partner's use, but seems to have very few users. And the fact that there are so many competing tools makes it difficult to land on one.

[0] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler

[1] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler/i...

[2] https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic

[3] https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile

[4] https://github.com/ducalex/prestic

I have looked up and found restic to be a good choice for the many advantages it provides (reduplication, incremental copies, encryption, free, ...). I looked also at the many projects built on it to make it easier to configure (resticker, autorestic). I already made a simple test locally for my MainPC (with docker swarm) and it seems to be fine.

You should consider setting up something like restic (maybe w/ autorestic) or borg and getting proper incremental backups.

I’m also using Autorestic to configure Restic via a YAML file, and I recently wrote an Ansible role to do this across multiple devices 🙂 if interested you can check it out here: https://github.com/dbrennand/ansible-role-autorestic

There's also [autorestic][https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic), it's worth checking.

The majority of my storage will be large media, documents, and the like that won't update much and I plan to do the backup with autorestic so I'll only be backing up the file changes (which won't be many/frequent).

Autorestic wraps restic in YAML config files, and for that I am very grateful.

https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic

Maybe autorestic or rclone.

There’s also a wrapper for restic to make management easier using yaml config (autorestic) and a well-regarded docker image (resticker)

The main disadvantage with pure Restic is that you usually have to end up writing your own shell scripts for some configuration management because Restic itself has none of that.

Fortunately there is https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile to solve that problem.

I really like restic, and am personally happy to use it via the command line. It's very fast and efficient! However, I do wish there was better tooling / wrappers around it. For example, Pika Backup is a popular UI for Borg of which no equivalent exists for Restic. I'd love to be able to set something simple up on my partner's Macbook.

For my own purposes, I've been using a script I found on Github[0] for a while, but it only really supports Backblaze B2 AFAIK.[1]

I've been meaning to try autorestic[2] and resticprofile[3] as they are potentially more flexible than the script I'm currently using, and prestic[4] looks intriguing for my partner's use, but seems to have very few users. And the fact that there are so many competing tools makes it difficult to land on one.

[0] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler

[1] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler/i...

[2] https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic

[3] https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile

[4] https://github.com/ducalex/prestic

You mean encrypted snapshots of files and not snapshots of encrypted files right? because the later is not really possible. You can do incremental backups with restic and backblaze b2 though. Just setup an automated profile using resticprofile.

While we're talking restic tools, have you also tried restic-profile?

There's also restic profile. I've been using autorestic but coming from borgmatic it feels much less solid.

There’s also resticprofile which takes care of scheduling (with launchd on macOS) and maintenance tasks for restic. I especially enjoy that resticprofile can create a prom file for the backup status that I can just scoop up to my monitoring.

https://creativeprojects.github.io/resticprofile/

Restic has a very good command line tool: resticprofile which lets you write backup profiles in an easy config file, automates the scheduling of each task along with an automatic locking system (to ensure prune never happens during backups, etc), and integration with Zabbix for monitoring the status of the backups (i.e. being alerted when backups fail). Restoring files and searching for files is done via the CLI.