Restic: Backups Done Right

1. backrest

   1 12 3,685 9.2 Go

   Backrest is a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup.

   

   Seriously try restic with Backrest. I had stopped using restic for almost two years after I got tired of tinkering with my local custom scripts to keep restic setup on my mac running. Then I found Backrest.

   It's really simple and in active development https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest. The dev (lead dev) https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest/discussions is very responsive.

   I know many comments have said it but I also wanted to add it just because backrest is what made restic usable for me again. Vorta is a favourite backup GUI but somehow I am finding backrest even simpler (although would have loved it if it was a tiny menu bar kinda app).

   Is there something like Deja Dup on Mac?

   I am planning to find and add another remote repo now (in addition to b2; and hopefully much cheaper which might be a tough one as b2 is kinda dirt cheap especially for small GBs) so that I can include some more of my less critical files in the additional backup set.

2. InfluxDB

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3. restic

   2 372 29,823 9.4 Go

   Fast, secure, efficient backup program

   

   Afaik not yet, there was some discussion here: https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/804

4. kopia

   3 237 10,953 9.6 Go

   Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.

   

   Been using Restic for a while but I was wondering how does it compare to:

   - Rustic https://rustic.cli.rs

   - Kopia https://kopia.io

5. rustic

   4 15 2,559 8.8 Rust

   rustic - fast, encrypted, and deduplicated backups powered by Rust

   

   Been using Restic for a while but I was wondering how does it compare to:

   - Rustic https://rustic.cli.rs

   - Kopia https://kopia.io

6. autorestic

   5 13 1,632 4.4 Go

   Config driven, easy backup cli for restic.

   

   There is also autorestic - A simplified YAML-based configuration for dealing with Restic backups: https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic

7. rincr

   6 4 27 9.0 Go

   

   Big fan of Restic! The only feature I found missing was the ability to browse snapshots as regular files. I wrote and now use the rsync-based, browsable, incremental backup tool: https://rincr.com/

8. Duplicacy

   7 138 5,498 4.9 Go

   A new generation cloud backup tool

   

   Keeping with the name scheme, there is also duplicacy - https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy

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10. rest-server

    8 11 1,192 7.8 Go

    Rest Server is a high performance HTTP server that implements restic's REST backend API.

    

    If you're doing pull to prevent remotes from destroying old backups (in case of malware takeover, etc), this can be solved by running rest-server with --append-only

    https://github.com/restic/rest-server

    It 403's any attempt to overwrite or delete old data.

11. git-remote-restic

    9 2 47 3.7 Go

    Bridge between git and restic.

    

    I built a tool on top of restic to host git repositories on untrusted infrastructure. Its been working fine for my small low traffic projects for years, I only sync the fork every few months. https://github.com/CGamesPlay/git-remote-restic

12. arq_restore

    10 127 655 0.0 C

    command-line utility for restoring from Arq backups

    

13. Rsnapshot

    11 75 3,496 6.3 Perl

    a tool for backing up your data using rsync (if you want to get help, use https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss)

    

    In the 90's I remember using various backup tools that had their own custom format. I decided that I wanted my backup to be just wanted files on a normal filesystem without being stored in some kind of special format. I realize that this means compression and deduplication is harder but those are tradeoffs that I can accept.

    I've been using rsnapshot (or it's predecessor script) for 20 years now. It's a wrapper around rsync that gives you snapshots that save space by using hard links. I can compare versions with diff. I can restore files with cp -a

    https://rsnapshot.org/

14. borgtui

    12 4 44 6.4 Rust

    A nice TUI for BorgBackup

    

    It's on my TODO list to add Restic support to BorgTUI[0]. It supports Rustic but the beta nature and iffy performance leaves something to be desired.

    [0] https://github.com/dpbriggs/borgtui

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