restic

“It improved my speed literally 10x, something to do with buffering over ssh.”

“I use backblaze with restic. Got about 300GB up there, fully encrypted, keys in 1Password.”

“We tested both and used Restic precisely because it was better in CLI/scripting department”

“more suitable for people who want a tool at the complexity level of tar/git CLI with declarative config”

“I was using Restic + Backrest as well for my personal Windows machines and it was great.”

“On my home PC I use restic, and (shockingly) I run it manually (via a script).”

“I'm mainly relying on software (restic) for that, where I trust that (A) backups always append data rather than replacing”

“I keep my backup job as simple as just running restic with some systemd restrictions”

“The deduplication is nice, you can have a snapshot for each week of the past year without crazy storage cost”

“I tested restoring my restic backups to the same PC and it worked.”

“if you use restic with S3 as a backend you can achieve much better deduplicate and compression”

“What I really needed was backup (restic and various online storage)”

“Not turnkey enough for me.”

“It works perfectly, it is client-side encrypted with easily-configurable retention policies.”

“needing to provide a remote + a separate set of env vars to authenticate with that remote”

“I still trust restic checksums will actually check whether restore is correct”

“We just use restic with B2 and some local S3 servers rather than relying on proprietary solutions”

“Use tools with straightforward, predictable semantics, like rclone, or synching, or restic/Borg.”

“using RESTIC or Borg as a backup container is a good idea since they can deduplicate”

“Restic + rclone personally, with a wrapper script to glue things together nicely”

“include dedpulication, incremental versioning, verification, and encryption”

“Gives me local backups, observability, remote backups spread across different providers - seems quite safe”

“I'm still just backing up to other machines using it (though I'd also heavily recommend restic)”

“I like how you can set multiple keys (much like LUKS) so that the key used by scheduled backups can be changed”

“I back up with Restic, so that the service only sees encrypted blobs.”

“the cloud service doesn't know about what I send, it's just encrypted blobs as far as it is concerned”

“I don't need some kind of special server daemon on the other end”

“make a great off site backup solution because, like the OP said, this is important stuff”

“something just goes wrong somewhere on this seemingly simple task”

“Just set up Rclone/restic and get your stuff into a system with some immutability.”

“Restic backups helped me several times in cases of catastrophic failures”

“I am very pleased with it, although I run it on windows, which works, but isn't perfect.”

“restic and kopia should work decently, if with a bit of setup”

“Restic is fantastic. And restic is complicated for someone who is not technical.”

“It is a very solid setup, with 3 independent backups: local, nearby and far away.”

“Restic deduplicates at the chunk level across all snapshots”

“Restic will do hash-based chunking so that similar files can be efficiently be backed up.”

“using any of a number of actual backup programs: borg, restic, hashbackup, tarsnap, others”

“it worked fairly seamlessly once I stopped trying too hard being fancy with permissions and capabilities”

“this later one is tricky to set up properly”