Restic

medium

Fast and secure backup program with encryption, deduplication, and support for many storage backends.

0.25 GB RAM min Active development

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Pros

Fast incremental backups
Strong encryption
Many storage backends including S3
Single Go binary with no dependencies

Cons

No web UI
No built-in scheduling
Restore requires CLI knowledge
Pruning old backups needs manual configuration

Tags

backup encryption deduplication cloud-storage cli

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