Restic Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: What is your approach for managing personal digital assets?

  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... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage

  You might be interested in https://restic.net :). - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Duplicity

  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. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Duplicity

  +1 for restic. I tried various solutions and restic is the best by far. So fast, so reliable. https://restic.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• best backup for ubuntu ?

  I use and recommend restic. I use it for about 60 machines on my LAN, and it's absolutely fantastic. Source: 5 months ago

• Satisfactory

  Git isn't really great for storing binary files (I assume the saves are binary and not plain text) without additions like git LFS. I'd recommend a backup manager like restic (https://restic.net/). Source: 5 months ago

• Root Filesystem Backup Software

  I use restic for everything. You can put the repo darn near anywhere you want (NAS, AWS, Backblaze, etc) either natively or using rclone. https://restic.net/. Source: 5 months ago

• Bandcamp support is faltering – maybe you should download your music now

  More importantly you have the possibility to get lossless music files. If you download from bandcamp then currently only in flac and backup the results with programs like restic [1] just as you should back up all other data. You should always make a second copy fo any further changes if you rewrite tags or encode to other formats like mp3. [1] https://restic.net. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod

  Wireguard + GUI: https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy Backups of mail accounts: https://www.offlineimap.org Cloud storage for phones: http://nextcloud.com Mirroring podcasts locally: https://github.com/akhilrex/podgrab My own matrix instance: https://matrix-org.github.io/dendrite/ Backups: https://restic.net Media Management: https://jellyfin.org Relay only tor help: https://www.torproject.org S3 compatible storage:... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Kopia: Open-Source, Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup Software

  Can someone please help decide what is the "best" backup software? - Restic (https://restic.net/). - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days – recovery is at 26%

  I used their trial for a bit to test it out with Vorta [1] in a container. Vorta (and Borg) seemed to work fine, until I wanted to restore an archive and I noticed that my recent snapshots were completely empty. Probably because of a misconfiguration on my end though. But it made me look elsewhere. For me backups should be a fire, test and forget solution. Recently I made the switch to Kopia [2] which seems to... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Rsync and Versioning/Backups

  For backups I recommend using https://restic.net/. Source: 10 months ago

• New to Keep large amount of Data and Need Advice!

  I make backup snapshots using Restic and I store them in Azure, but I only use Azure because I have some free resources there. There are many other equally good cloud storge providers. I also store a copy of the backups on my desktop. That way I have 3 copies of the data on 2 local machines and 1 remote. Source: 10 months ago

• How to make the most out of my storage

  Look into restic for making backup snapshots. I use it for photos and documents. It'll save you from accidentally deleting files and lets you recover old versions of files. Source: 11 months ago

• Backup tools that uses exclude paths format like rsync --exclude-from= ?

  I think restic will do that with --exclude-file=... As you want it to. Source: 11 months ago

• What’s the most common way to backup your collection?

  Alternatively, a backup tool like restic ought to be able to verify what it restored is the same as what it backed up, but making backup snapshots is a bit more invasive than just running checksums. Source: 11 months ago

• cheap(est) cloud zfs-based backup

  I am having a hard time understanding exactly what you want but would Restic allow you to do this? Source: 12 months ago

• Backing up a Linux system is not easy or scrutable

  I also like restic: https://restic.net/. I back up to Backblaze but there are lots of other options. I've been using Mint for many years and haven't had any problem upgrading. Not saying problems can't happen, just that it's possible to upgrade without everything getting messed up. I've also done clean installs of a new version of Mint, which as you pointed out does require a little customization afterward to... Source: 12 months ago

• [RANT] —I've been a Crashplan customer for ~7 years, and 2 weeks ago I had to restore my 3.5TB drive and I am STILL trying to restore it. I can't wait to cancel my Crashplan subscription

  Let's give restic a try. It's also a free, open source, deduplicating and compressing backup solution like borg. Source: 12 months ago

• Recommendations for cloud backup for MacOS other than iCloud Drive?

  If you prefer a minimalist CLI tool, restic is phenomenal. You configure it with your cloud storage provider of choice, and it uploads your data, encrypted, compressed, and deduplicated. Restoring from back up is similar to working with git commits. You can run it via cron, so there's no software running continuously in the background. It takes about 2 minutes for it to scan and upload changed files for about 300... Source: almost 1 year ago

• Announcing rustic - fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups powered by Rust

  Resemblance with restic (written in Go) is a total coincidence, right? Right?! Source: about 1 year ago