rustic-rs/rustic

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

3192 stars · 141 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

rustic is a fast, encrypted, deduplicated backup tool written in Rust that reads and writes the restic repository format, making it a drop-in-compatible restic alternative. It is split into a main CLI binary plus core and backend library crates, and supports all major operating systems.

Use cases

• back up my files with encryption and deduplication
• restic alternative written in Rust
• create encrypted snapshots of a directory
• verify backups made with restic using a compatible tool
• schedule automated deduplicated backups on Linux and Windows
• back up to local disk or remote backend repositories

When to choose

• you want restic-compatible repositories with faster development and new features
• you need a cross-platform backup CLI in a single static Rust binary
• you want to interoperate with restic, e.g. verify backups with either tool

When to avoid

• you need battle-tested production backups today - the project states its tools are in beta and lack regression tests
• you prefer the older, more mature restic ecosystem and tooling
• you need a GUI-based backup solution

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

backup cryptography compression cli file-system developer-tools files security self-hosted windows bsd rust cli cross-platform restic-compatible deduplication encrypted-backups snapshot-management rust command-line linux macos

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