One of the reasons I prefer restic to borg is it is trivial to maintain a standalone copy of the executable. Wherever I put backups, I keep a copy of the restic

One of the reasons I prefer restic to borg is it is trivial to maintain a standalone copy of the executable. Wherever I put backups, I keep a copy of the restic executable used to generate the dump. For extra paranoid, could clone the restic source tree (with vendored dependencies). Go language backwards compatibility is such that I should always be able to read my data.