What is restic?
It is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. It uses cryptography to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of your data.
restic is a tool in the Data Backup category of a tech stack.
restic is an open source tool with 24.1K GitHub stars and 1.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to restic's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses restic?
Companies
8 companies reportedly use restic in their tech stacks, including top.gg, Internal Tools, and NKI.
Developers
16 developers on StackShare have stated that they use restic.
restic Integrations
Amazon S3, Linux, Google Cloud Storage, Windows, and macOS are some of the popular tools that integrate with restic. Here's a list of all 9 tools that integrate with restic.
Decisions about restic
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose restic in their tech stack.
Girish Sharma
Software Engineer at FireVisor Systems · | 5 upvotes · 17.8K views
Incremental backups of Postgres
So we want to set up an incremental backup system for our PostgreSQL instance. Right now we are only taking full dumps of our PostgreSQL instance and end up wasting a lot of disk space.
We are looking into restic and pgbackrest for the incremental backups but not sure what to use.
Anyone using restic or pgbackrest for Postgres backup? Any other tool we should consider?
restic's Features
- Secure
- Efficient
- Free
- Cloud-ready
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