Restic Alternatives

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• Docker Volume Backup Strategies on My Own VPS
  1 project | dev.to | 12 May 2026

  # Installation on Linux wget https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/download/v0.16.2/restic_0.16.2_linux_amd64.bz2 bzip2 -d restic_0.16.2_linux_amd64.bz2 mv restic_0.16.2_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/restic chmod +x /usr/local/bin/restic

• Restic vs BorgBackup: Which Backup Tool to Use?
  2 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2026

  # Install on Debian/Ubuntu apt install restic # Or download directly wget https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/download/v0.18.1/restic_0.18.1_linux_amd64.bz2

• Designing a Restore-First Desktop Backup Tool Around Restic (From Bash Script to Qt/C++)
  1 project | dev.to | 22 Feb 2026

  This realization is what led me from a small Bash script wrapped in KDialog to a full multithreaded Qt/C++ desktop application built around restic.

• restic: Designing a "Restorable Development Environment" While Excluding node_modules and .git
  4 projects | dev.to | 2 Feb 2026

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• resticprofile: Consolidating Exclusion Patterns, Generation Management, and Scheduling in a Single YAML File
  6 projects | dev.to | 29 Jan 2026

  resticprofile is a wrapper tool for centrally managing the configuration of restic. It is developed in Go and features cross-platform compatibility, just like restic.

• Top 5 database backup tools in 2026
  8 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2026
• Why Self-Host?
  14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2025

  The control plane of Tailscale can even be self-hosted via the Headscale project:

  https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

  As for backups, I like both https://github.com/restic/restic and https://github.com/kopia/kopia/. Encryption is done client-side, so the only thing the offsite host receives is encrypted blobs.

• Restic vs Rclone vs Rsync: Choosing the Right Tool for Backups
  3 projects | dev.to | 1 Sep 2025

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• Speeding Up Restic Backups on Kubernetes
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2025

  I ran into this (initially surprising) behavior of using Restic [1] to make backups of services on Kubernetes, figured I'd write it up for others.

  [1] https://github.com/restic/restic/

• Borg - Deduplicating Archiver with Compression and Encryption
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2025

  You definitely should have checksumming in some form, even if compression and deduplication are worthless in this particular use case, so either use ZFS on both the sending and the receiving side (most efficient, but probably will force you to redo the NAS), or stick to restic.

  I've been mostly using restic over the past five years to backup two dozen servers, no problems so far, and it's been very stable in both senses of the word (absence of bugs & unchanging API — both "technical" and "user-facing").

  https://github.com/restic/restic

  The important thing is to run periodic scrubs with full data read to check that your data can actually be restored (I do it once a week; once a month is probably the upper limit).

    restic check --read-data ...

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