rustic VS restic

I'm a huge fan of restic as well. My only complaint is performance and memory usage. I'm looking forward to being able to use Rustic: https://rustic.cli.rs/

Since this is HN, we also need to mention [Rustic](https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic) which is better since it's in Rust.

For anyone just passing by, from the rustic website[0]:

> Stability: Currently our tools are in beta state and miss regression tests. It is not recommended to use them in production backups, yet.

[0]: https://rustic.cli.rs/

After a bit of refactoring, we are very proud to announce the first version of rustic_core, a library providing all functionality available in rustic, see https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/12xs8h3/announcing_rustic_fast_encrypted_deduplicated/. In fact, rustic is now just a thin CLI wrapper around rustic_core.

There is support to extend a local repository using e.g. the par2 tool, see https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic/blob/main/examples/par2.toml But for recovery, that would involve manually recovery of broken repository files.

Restic - GitHub

I religiously use Google contacts. It's the simplest way to keep people contacts up to date on Android.

I archive all important documents in specific folders by subject and date. This is backed up to back blaze with restic. https://restic.net/

I use https://ente.io for pictures. I convinced my wife to use it, and she agreed to auto share her photos so I don't nag her for copies. It had simple import from Facebook and Google.

I also keep extensive journals, which really helps to tie it all together. I can basically grep for hangouts, conversations, etc.

I also separate work journal from personal, and have essentially a journal for each project. https://jodavaho.io/tags/bullet-journal.html for how.

I religiously use Google calendar for all plans, you can easily search it for past events to get dates.

I also use monicahq for some notes about things I should remember about people but the habit never stuck.

After Borg, I switched to Restic:

https://restic.net/

AFAIK, the only difference is that Restic doesn't require Restic installed on the remote server, so you can efficiently backup to things like S3 or FTP. Other than that, both are fantastic.

I'm curious, too. I know they've had some issues in the past:

https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3268#issuecomment-78...

On the other hand, I tested around 15,000 backups last year (multiple hourly backups, daily tests) and they all passed.

I use and recommend restic. I use it for about 60 machines on my LAN, and it's absolutely fantastic.