Welcome to restic

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restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. On the left you can find an overview of the documentation. The project's homepage is https://restic.github.io, the source code repository can be found on GitHub at the URL https://github.com/restic/restic.

The documentation you're currently viewing may not match the version of restic you have installed. If you cloned the repository manually, you can find the right documentation in the directory doc/. If you're viewing this online at https://restic.readthedocs.org, there is a small menu at the bottom left of this page, where you can select the version.

The restic documentation is built with MkDocs. After installing it, you can edit and view the documentation locally by running:

$ mkdocs serve
INFO    -  Building documentation...
INFO    -  Cleaning site directory
[I 160221 12:33:57 server:271] Serving on http://127.0.0.1:8000

Afterwards visit the URL with a browser.