resticprofile

I used to use restic with scripting, then I discovered resticprofile, and swiftly replace all my scripts with it. https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile I also use Kopia as an alternative to Restic, in case some critical bugs happen to either one of them. https://kopia.io/

The main disadvantage with pure Restic is that you usually have to end up writing your own shell scripts for some configuration management because Restic itself has none of that. Fortunately there is https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile to solve that problem.

I really like restic, and am personally happy to use it via the command line. It's very fast and efficient! However, I do wish there was better tooling / wrappers around it. I'd love to be able to set something simple up on my partner's Macbook. For example, Pika Backup, and Vorta are popular UIs for Borg of which no equivalent exists for Restic, while Borgmatic seems to be a de-facto standard for profile configuration. For my own purposes, I've been using a script I found on Github[0] for a while, but it only really supports Backblaze B2 AFAIK.[1] I've been meaning to try autorestic[2] and resticprofile[3] as they are potentially more flexible than the script I'm currently using but the fact that there are so many competing tools - many of which are no longer maintained - makes it difficult to choose a specific one. Prestic[4] looks int

I do backups to a local, external HD (that I need to manually plug and unplug, unfortunately), and to Backblaze. Depending on the importance of the data, it's being pushed daily to B2 and weekly to HD, or more seldom, or only to HD. Technology-wise, I've been on restic for some years now, because of its support for cloud backends. (Otherwise, Borg is a fine tool, too.) Until last week, I've used crestic, but I just migrated to resticprofile, as that can do web hooks and pre-/post-commands, which I intend to use for SQL server dumps. restic: https://github.com/restic/restic/ crestic: https://github.com/nils-werner/crestic resticprofile: https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile/