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