Backrest
Hacker ApprovedBackup web UI in Hosting & cloud
People recommend it as a web frontend for restic that works reliably, including for disaster recovery.
People recommend it as a web frontend for restic that works reliably, including for disaster recovery.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works reliably for backups
“It works great, I even had to do disaster recovery on it once and it went smooth.”
Comment from 24 Apr 2026 in “Incident with Multple GitHub Services” “Backrest has been working well and ran a ton of my backups.”
Comment from 7 Jun 2026 in “Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup” “Backrest has been working well for my use-case.”
Comment from 7 Jun 2026 in “Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup” - Comment from 7 Jun 2026 in “Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup”
Good web frontend for restic
“I use the wonderful https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest as a web UI around restic.”
Comment from 3 Sep 2026 in “Creating backup storage sucks” “Backrest is so good as a frontend to Restic I stopped looking for anything better.”
Comment from 7 Jun 2026 in “Backrest – a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup” “Use something like backrest to handle backups”
Comment from 6 Sep 2026 in “Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone”
What people said
10 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Backrest stores the vault password (among other things) in a simple plaintext file on your local hard drive.”
“they're both exceptional OSS.”
“Use something like backrest to handle backups”
“I use the wonderful https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest as a web UI around restic.”
“No security and quality setup in github. No dependabot action. 121 open issues labeled as bugs.”
“Backrest is good and works well for me”
“Backrest is so good as a frontend to Restic I stopped looking for anything better.”
“Backrest has been working well and ran a ton of my backups.”
“Backrest has been working well for my use-case.”
“It works great, I even had to do disaster recovery on it once and it went smooth.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.