Hello! I’m the maintainer of a backup app aimed at the GNOME environment, called Déjà Dup Backups.
For a few years, it has supported an experimental Restic mode - but with its recent 49.0 release, Restic is now the stable, default backend experience for fresh backups.
Déjà Dup does not aim to be a “Restic frontend”, in the sense of exposing all features, so it may not be suitable for all use cases. But if you want a nice GUI experience for basic backups that writes to and reads from Restic repositories, it might be worth checking out!
Congratulations! I’ve been a longtime fan of Deja-Dup on my laptop: simple, intuitive, and reliable. On my server I’ve used Restic for a while, so seeing these two worlds come together is wonderful news. Thank you for your work, I really appreciate it. I’m on Debian Sid with Deja-Dup 49.alpha, and I’m excited to switch over once we get 49 stable.
@need_restic_gui from your nick and first post I conclude you are looking for a restic GUI for windows; check out 2025-best-gui-for-restic for some suggestions.
Olá! Yes unfortunately Ubuntu has to promote Restic from universe to man to enable it by default and that needs a security review and they just haven’t gotten around to prioritizing it.
Even more unfortunately, there’s a bug with their app armor config that prevents restoring Restic backups from the flatpak, so that’s not a viable alternative either.
The best you could do is manually tweak the gsettings to flip the default to Restic, but they also are a couple point releases behind, in which I fixed an annoying Restic restore-browse bug.
So… Ubuntu support is a “wait till they sort things out” situation.
