How to use Restic for backups

Restic is a simple to use command line tool that uses modern encryption and chunking to store your valuable backups on remote stores. You can even back up multiple hosts to the same location! You will be able to tag, recover, maintain, and automate backups of any device using Restic.

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[smibssmibs]

3 years later and still valid. Very nicely explained. First focusing on concept, then showing how to use it. The whole explanation holds together and does not omit "the obvious" things. Well done.

[danielkrajnik]

I've used restic for home backups for almost a year now and it's worked flawlessly for me - now I realized that it can also be used for version control of very large binary files (very common in CAD/CAM industries). There are definitely many more use cases for this project. Absolutely amazing work! Integration with rclone was an excellent addition as well.

[Revenantpony]

I'm amazed. The quality of this video was top notch. The problem with most tutorial videos is that they are either explaining too much or just a specific scenario. I, as an IT admin, simply wanted to know how to set this up and the basic functions, regular scenarios and automation best practice. You mentioned all of this and never went overly-detailed. I really don't understand how you only have 56 subscribers. Well done!

[prodbyfvdead]

This was a suprisingly high-quality video, I'm really shocked that you only have 100 subscribers!

[Z-Diode]

Yes, restic and rclone are most rock solid stable, fast, and professional tools for reliable mass backup setups. Use them since years in a large FreeBSD and Windows-Server environment.

[nene]

Thank you for this clear presentation! I use restic in combination with naeon to store my backup (chunks) in untrusted environments like the cloud. That way I avoid having to depend on the cloud hosting provider when it comes to proper encryption key management.

[brianebarb]

Just wanted to pop in to say thanks for the tutorial!

[Practical-IT]

Good video. I would suggest that you make the font size larger in your browser and perhaps go full screen. This will allow people viewing on a TV or people with vision impairments a better chance of reading what you are presenting. I will definitely be checking out restic after this.

[Dieterbe]

Very useful video thank you ! Restic looks awesome

[andherium]

I've been using restic for a while now and didn't know about the `mount` command. holy shit!

[blu_enjoy]

thanks for increasing my understanding

[Zach-fdiz]

Great Vid! But how do you get rid of data (meaning not backup) data that was created within a certain time frame. For instance only do backup on everything older than 15 hours?

[MyAJVideo]

Great video! How do you do the notifications? Is is built in to restic?

[rgalik]

Thanks for the video! I am planning to use a NAS to do backups. From what you said it would be safe to use one restic repository to back up various computers. Backing up Windows partitions would be done through their Linux mounts. But: if I wanted to e.g. back up all of my data on /, partition would this also back up all of the mounted filesystems, including network drives?

[scottie_oh]

How do I make my command prompt look like yours? On Fedora, everything’s one color. 😢

[faiz]

can we use restic to backup entire linux os..somelthing like I dont want o re-install all of software again or setup its config, then using the backup, they are also restored...

[срабатывает]

Thanks for the video, but is there a known proper GUI addon for restic ? That would be good for simple tasks
How fast did you find restic compared to other backup programs ? Heard someone saying it's faster

[anneonetwothree]

To compare restic "snapshots" with regular snapshot technology is not valid. Problem with restic they should never had used the name "snapshot" for a "backup". Products that use dedupe technology create backups not snapshots. Backups technology using snapshots is also known as "flat backups" a dedupe backup would never be considered a "flat backup"

[GreyDeathVaccine]

meatbags... hmm, someone must have played KOTOR :-)