Restic

Very secure backup. Works quite well and fast. I use it for local backup nothing fancy, Restic don't have GUI, only from the console, but is very easy to use. Basically you need 3 commands backup, snapshots (list backups) and forget/prune (delete) ok 4 commands, one more to restore :)

Super quick tutorial

Preparing a new repository, it create an encrypted backup folder in Restic. Here is were everything goes.

restic init --repo /d/backup-restic

1) Backing up

restic -r _REPOSITORY_ --verbose backup _MY-FILES_

restic -r /d/backup-restic --verbose backup /c/App/config/

2) Listing all snapshots

restic -r /d/backup-restic snapshots

3) Restoring from a snapshot

restic -r _REPOSITORY_ restore _SNAPSHOT-ID_ --target _WHERE-TO-RESTORE_

restic -r /d/backup-restic restore ef8e1d91 --target /d/books_restore

4) Remove a single snapshot

restic -r /d/backup-restic forget bdbd3439 --prune

Maintenance

Check the repository for errors (Run regularly) It is advisable to run restic check after pruning.

restic -r /d/backup-restic check

Remove old cache

restic -r /d/backup-restic cache --cleanup

Remove unneeded data from the repository

restic -r /d/backup-restic prune

To avoid asking for the password or the repository (Optional) set the following variables:

export RESTIC_PASSWORD="P45sWORD"
export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="/d/backup-restic"

If you set the variables, from now on, to the the backup just do:

restic backup /c/myfiles/to/save
restic snapshots

Basic example for automatic backup

From Windows (if you have bash) you can use Task Sheduler and set the "Program" to bash.exe and the "Arguments" to the script C:\restic_backup.sh For Linux you can use Cron.

Here is the script.

#!/bin/sh

export RESTIC_PASSWORD="My-P5ssw00rD"

restic -r _CLOUD-PROVIDER-FOLDER_ --verbose --tag _TAG-NAME_ backup _FOLDER_TO_BACKUP_

restic -r /d/nextcloud/restic-notes/ --verbose --tag jobnotes backup /d/jobs_notes/project1/