# rustic

5 Hacker News commenters recommended rustic and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free Rust rewrite of restic, recommended for encrypted, deduplicated backups and as a first choice among backup tools.

## Why people recommend it

- Rust clone of restic (2 comments): "Restic (and it's Rust clone Rustic) are better." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46853679)) "the rustic clone of restic" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767757))
- Preferred backup tool choice (2 comments): "If I had to start over I'd go with rustic-rs or borg backup." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855918)) "Use restic or rustic for backup and dedupe and encryption." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984220))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [pgBackRest](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pgbackrest.md): 32 recommend
- [Barman](https://hackerapproved.com/p/barman.md): 17 recommend
- [Databasus](https://hackerapproved.com/p/databasus.md): 9 recommend
- [Restoredrill](https://hackerapproved.com/p/restoredrill.md): 7 recommend
- [sqlite3_rsync](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sqlite3-rsync.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

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