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Restic is a backup program running on Linux, macOS, Windows, and various BSD systems. It transfers data in an encrypted way to local directories, SFTP servers, or various cloud storage services. It manages backup repositories protected by the password set by the user and allows past backups to be examined by connecting to the file system via FUSE.
restic
100restic · File & Object Storage
Common commercial products in this category: Dropbox, Google Drive, Box
- By encrypting data from your local disks, you can back it up to a different storage space.
- You can store your data on remote servers using various backends, such as SFTP, Amazon S3, or Google Cloud Storage.
- With FUSE support, you can access files in past snapshots by connecting the backup repository like a file system.
- • High number of open issues (646)
- • NeutralHacker News
Restic – Backups Done Right
“No. You cannot stick a compression step before restic, because it will mess up the deduplication - the chunker will not find the same chunks, and will not be able to find out which files have same contents (not as easily at least). And you cannot stick it after restic,…”
- ↓ NegativeHacker News
Restic – Backups Done Right
“I moved from borg to restic because of the native support for B2 buckets (a lot cheaper than dedicated rsync/ssh type cloud file systems). My use case is backing up daily snapshots of my Onedrive (synced locally via rclone). As my important files are mostly immutable (photo…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source