For me, these traits made restic initially attractive: - encrypted, chunk-deduped, snapshotted backups - single Go binary, so I could even backup the binary u

For me, these traits made restic initially attractive: - encrypted, chunk-deduped, snapshotted backups - single Go binary, so I could even backup the binary used to create my backups - reasonable versioning and release scheme - I could read, and understand, its design document: https://github.com/restic/restic/blob/master/doc/design.rst https://github.com/restic/restic/blob/master/doc/design.rst I then just tried using it for a year and never hit any issues with it, so kept going, and now it's 6+ years later.