Great news from the wonderful Restic!

I have it set up taking snapshots of my laptop every hour. It has always ended up in “successfully backed up and pruned“.

It’s feature rich, with nice and clean command line syntax, and a single static binary for long term storage. It’s stable and reliable in my experience, I don’t know why the version number doesn’t advance to 1.0.

Excellent piece of software. Blazingly fast and highly reliable. I use it on Lightsail server to do hourly backups to S3.

I use rustic [1] which is interoperable with restic.

Perhaps I should give restic another try with that new release

[1] https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic

Can sbdy explain how this is diff than rsync?

Restic and rustic are both great.

I started with restic for daily backups but switched to rustic to have a slightly more “set it and forget it” experience (the config file is great for this).

If you’re setting up offsite backups rsync.net has a special deal for restic users, and their service is phenomenal: https://www.rsync.net/products/restic.html