# Backrest

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Backrest and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a web frontend for restic that works reliably, including for disaster recovery.

## Why people recommend it

- Works reliably for backups (4 comments): "It works great, I even had to do disaster recovery on it once and it went smooth." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884527)) "Backrest has been working well and ran a ton of my backups." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438080)) "Backrest has been working well for my use-case." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437027))
- Good web frontend for restic (3 comments): "I use the wonderful https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest as a web UI around restic." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546474)) "Backrest is so good as a frontend to Restic I stopped looking for anything better." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438567)) "Use something like backrest to handle backups" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49584749))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Backrest", https://hackerapproved.com/p/backrest/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).