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Restic: Backups done right

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231 points fanf2 | 5 comments | 13 Oct 24 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.808s | source
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thekashifmalik ◴[13 Oct 24 19:22 UTC] No.41830760[source]▶
Big fan of restic! The only feature I found missing was the ability to browse historical snapshots like regular files.

I wrote and now use the rsync-based, browsable, incremental backup CLI: https://rincr.com/

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1. dmd ◴[13 Oct 24 19:28 UTC] No.41830809[source]▶
What do you mean by that? "restic mount" has been part of restic since the very start.
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2. thekashifmalik ◴[13 Oct 24 19:48 UTC] No.41830961[source]▶
That command works well and accomplishes some of what rincr what built to solve. For example, when I mention browse-ability, I mean on the backup host without any dependencies so I can use standard file tools and browsers.

I also needed both "pull" (backup remote files) and "push" (backup local files) backup features and if I'm not mistaken restic still only supports the "push" model.

EDIT: Added more details

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3. homebrewer ◴[13 Oct 24 20:28 UTC] No.41831295[source]▶
If you're doing pull to prevent remotes from destroying old backups (in case of malware takeover, etc), this can be solved by running rest-server with --append-only

https://github.com/restic/rest-server

It 403's any attempt to overwrite or delete old data.

4. luoc ◴[13 Oct 24 21:20 UTC] No.41831714[source]▶
Browsing without dependencies is a bit tricky due to a) deduplication, b) encryption and c) compression of restic's backups.
5. rakoo ◴[13 Oct 24 22:12 UTC] No.41832158[source]▶
> I mean on the backup host without any dependencies so I can use standard file tools and browsers.

This means the backups are not encrypted though, and is something you really have to think twice before requiring

> "pull" (backup remote files)

You can mount the server to backup on the backup host, or you can ssh from the backup host to the server to backup, call `tar cf - /folder`, and ingest that from stdin on the backup host. Both will retransmit the totality of the files to backup