restic/restic

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

restic is a fast, secure, and efficient open-source backup program written in Go. It creates encrypted, deduplicated snapshots of files and stores them on local disks or a wide variety of cloud and remote storage backends.

Use cases

• back up my home directory with encryption and deduplication
• incremental backups to S3 or Backblaze B2
• restore files from previous snapshots
• browse old backups by mounting the repository via FUSE
• set up automated server backups over sftp
• verify backups are restorable
• offsite backup for Linux, macOS, and Windows machines

When to choose

• you need encrypted, deduplicated backups across Linux, macOS, Windows, or BSD
• you want a single static binary with no server or complex setup
• you need to back up to many storage backends including S3, B2, Azure, Google Cloud, Swift, sftp, or local disks
• you value verifiable backups and backward-compatible repository formats

When to avoid

• you need block-level disk image or bare-metal disaster recovery backups
• you require a GUI-driven backup solution
• you need continuous real-time file sync rather than scheduled snapshots
• you need centralized management of many clients out of the box

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

backup cryptography compression cli file-system object-storage security developer-tools self-hosted security files cloud-computing windows bsd go cli cross-platform deduplication incremental-backup encrypted-backup snapshot-management fuse-mount cloud-storage-backends command-line linux macos

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