nicotsx/zerobyte
Backup automation for self-hosters. Built on top of restic observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
80/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 87
- Longevity 27
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 2
- age_days: 389
- days_rel: 10
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 74
Adoption not part of the score
6858 stars · 174 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Zerobyte is a self-hosted backup automation platform built on top of Restic, providing a modern web interface to schedule, manage, monitor, and restore encrypted backups. It supports backing up local directories and remote shares (NFS, SMB, WebDAV, SFTP, rclone) to many storage backends including S3, Cloudflare R2, and Azure Blob.
Use cases
- schedule automated encrypted backups of my home server data
- manage restic backups through a web interface instead of cron and CLI
- back up NFS and SMB shares to cloud storage with retention policies
- restore individual files from snapshots without using the command line
- monitor backup job health and get notified when backups fail
- implement a 3-2-1 backup strategy for self-hosted services
When to choose
- you want a GUI control plane on top of Restic for scheduled, encrypted, deduplicated backups
- you back up heterogeneous sources (local, NFS, SMB, WebDAV, SFTP, rclone) to multiple cloud backends
- you are a self-hoster running Docker who wants retention policies, snapshot browsing, and monitoring in one place
When to avoid
- you need a battle-tested 1.x tool - Zerobyte is 0.x and subject to breaking changes between versions
- you want a simple headless backup CLI without a web interface
- you cannot run Docker or grant the container SYS_ADMIN/FUSE capabilities
- you plan to expose it directly to the internet - the docs discourage internet-facing deployments
Facets
application · maturity active
backup scheduling monitoring cryptography self-hosted self-hosted files self-hosted restic backup-automation web-ui nas cloud-storage retention-policies snapshot-restore web backup devops docker linux web-server
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/nicotsx/zerobyte · fetched 2026-08-28 · d93114fbeb16
- homepage: https://zerobyte.app · fetched 2026-08-29 · 7ef0c42dbc0c
- site_page: https://zerobyte.app/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · ade05ec9e4c7
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| nicotsx/zerobyte | main | 80 |
For agents
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