So, I thought I would just drop a note on here to state how truly, truly, truly, impressed I am with restic. It is extremely well designed from both a usage as well as operational viewpoint. The more I learn about it, the more little things I discover that are delightful.
Apart from the main/obvious features — the fast, reliable, robust, incremental, deduplicating backups — the single most important aspect of restic that, IMHO, sets it apart from anything else out there is the ability to write to such an incredible variety of backends natively. Nothing else lets me easily and without too much moving parts write to and S3 or B2 remote backend with just a switch of an URL. This is truly excellent!
Then there are all the little-but-not-so-little things that is easy to take for granted because it all works so well in the background: the handling of conflicting operations, multiple independent hosts writing to the same repo, etc. etc.
So, all in all, just wanted to say “THANKS” and “KUDOS” to the developers and community. Your work is greatly appreciated and, I would say, also critical.
P.S. I’ve blogged about setting up restic as a backup system here.
I am still trying to fine tune the system itself, particularly integrating the actual backups with other maintenance operations such as pruning/forgetting, checking etc.
Will update it as soon as things have been ironed out.
