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I really like restic, and am personally happy to use it via the command line. It's very fast and efficient! However, I do wish there was better tooling / wrappe
by radlad 3y ago
I really like restic, and am personally happy to use it via the command line. It's very fast and efficient! However, I do wish there was better tooling / wrappers around it. I'd love to be able to set something simple up on my partner's Macbook.
For example, Pika Backup, and Vorta are popular UIs for Borg of which no equivalent exists for Restic, while Borgmatic seems to be a de-facto standard for profile configuration.
For my own purposes, I've been using a script I found on Github[0] for a while, but it only really supports Backblaze B2 AFAIK.[1] I've been meaning to try autorestic[2] and resticprofile[3] as they are potentially more flexible than the script I'm currently using but the fact that there are so many competing tools - many of which are no longer maintained - makes it difficult to choose a specific one.
Prestic[4] looks intriguing for my partner's use, although it seems to have very few users. :\ A fork of Vorta[5] seems to have fizzled out six years ago.
[0] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler
[1] https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler/issues/99#issuecomment-1216568162 https://github.com/erikw/restic-automatic-backup-scheduler/i...
[2] https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic https://github.com/cupcakearmy/autorestic
[3] https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile
[4] https://github.com/ducalex/prestic https://github.com/ducalex/prestic
[5] https://github.com/Mebus/restatic https://github.com/Mebus/restatic
- e12e 3y ago> For example, Pika Backup, and Vorta are popular UIs for Borg of which no equivalent exists for Restic Have you considered?: https://github.com/netinvent/npbackup https://github.com/netinvent/npbackup Or (not FOSS, but restore-compatible): https://relicabackup.com/features https://relicabackup.com/features
- radlad 3y agoThanks - last time I looked at npbackup it didn't support macOS! I'll have her give it a go. Relica looks neat, but at that point I'd either suggest she uses one of the Borg tools or write a simple wrapper for her to trigger backups instead. edit: Still looks a bit hairy for an average user to install currently, and the maintainer writes "I'm not planning on full macos support since I don't own any mac" - https://github.com/netinvent/npbackup/issues/28 https://github.com/netinvent/npbackup/issues/28
- devnull212 3y agoTo add to this list scheduling+browsing https://forum.restic.net/t/backrest-a-cross-platform-backup-orchestrator-and-webui-for-restic/7069 https://forum.restic.net/t/backrest-a-cross-platform-backup-... (Golang webUI supporting Linux and MacOS). A number of others are findable through the community section of the forum. Bit of a self plug, I author Backrest. The most significant challenge historically has been that restic has poor programatic interfaces but in recent revisions the JSON API (over stdout) has largely stabilized for most commands.
- riedel 3y agoI would recommend kopia, which afaik has a similar feature set approach and a very easy to use gui. I recently used it to convert my 10 year old backups into one store. Dedup worked great.