# restic/restic

Fast, secure, efficient backup program

Repository: https://github.com/restic/restic
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/restic
Homepage: https://restic.net
Language: Go
License: BSD-2-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: go, restic, backup, deduplication, dedupe, secure-by-default
Last push: 2026-08-01T20:25:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 87/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 68, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4511, "days_push": 32, "days_rel": 59, "gap_med": 94.5, "n_releases_24m": 7}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 35742, forks 1846 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:00.912149+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: backup, cryptography, compression, cli, file-system, object-storage, security
- domain: developer-tools, self-hosted, security, files, cloud-computing
- platform: windows, bsd, go, cli, cross-platform
- tags: deduplication, incremental-backup, encrypted-backup, snapshot-management, fuse-mount, cloud-storage-backends, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- restic/restic (main) score 87

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:00.912149+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:26:44.999478+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/restic/restic (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:00.912149+00:00, sha 0e47d0cd86c0)
  - homepage: https://restic.net (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:50.689664+00:00, sha 81cfb84f4f68)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.