Restic – Backups Done Right

Also check out Borg: https://www.borgbackup.org And some resources on how they're different: - https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1875 - https://stickleback.dk/borg-or-restic/ - https://sysadministrivia.com/episodes/S4E5 The general concensus seems to be that restic is borg with more whistles (backing up to various places), but borg is the more trusted tool with the longer history (just use SSH and be done with it). I personally recently used borg for a migration between computers and it worked great for me.

Oh yeah, restic is awesome _backup_prepare () { export $(sudo cat <protected_credentials_file> | xargs) } _backup_remove_old_snapshots () { restic forget -r <repo_name> --keep-weekly 10 } _backup_verify () { restic check -r <repo_name> } backup () { echo "---------------Scheduled backup time---------------" echo "" _backup_prepare restic -r <repo_name> --verbose --exclude="$HOME/snap" --exclude="$HOME/Android" --exclude="$HOME/.android" --exclude="$HOME/ApkProjects" backup ~/ echo "" echo "---------------Backup…

I'm a restic user, but have resisted the urge to attempt a bikeshed for a long time, mostly due to perf. It's index format seems to be slow and terrible and the chunking algorithm it uses (rabin fingerprints) is very slow compared to more recent alternatives (like FastCDC). Drives me nuts to watch it chugging along backing up or listing snapshots at nowhere close to the IO rate of the system while still making the fans run. Despite that it…