Restic

5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Restic first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.

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5first-hand users
0in production
endorse 2mixed 0regret 0uses, no opinion

“went to borg (and later to restic)... Borg and Restic are both fine backup programs.”

endorse · personal · theamk · 2026-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Apart from occasional "rate limit exceeded API warnings", I haven't faced any issues so far.”

endorse · personal · b215826 · 2021-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using restic for a while, and I'm interested in rustic, but I have no idea how stable it is overall.”

neutral · personal · singhrac · 2025-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“then Restic to create backups locally and on Backblaze B2”

neutral · personal · seanlane · 2023-10-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We back up everything with restic and Arq on macOS to the NAS and to Backblaze B2.”

neutral · personal · microtonal · 2019-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?