Restic Documentation

• Introduction
• Installation
  • Packages
  • Official Binaries
  • Docker Container
  • From Source
  • Autocompletion
• Preparing a new repository
  • Local
  • SFTP
  • REST Server
  • Amazon S3
  • Minio Server
  • OpenStack Swift
  • Backblaze B2
  • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Other Services via rclone
  • Password prompt on Windows
• Backing up
  • Including and Excluding Files
  • Comparing Snapshots
  • Backing up special items and metadata
  • Reading data from stdin
  • Tags for backup
  • Space requirements
• Working with repositories
  • Listing all snapshots
  • Checking a repo’s integrity and consistency
• Restoring from backup
  • Restoring from a snapshot
  • Restore using mount
  • Printing files to stdout
• Removing backup snapshots
  • Remove a single snapshot
  • Removing snapshots according to a policy
• Encryption
  • Manage repository keys
• Scripting
  • Check if a repository is already initialized
• Examples
  • Setting up restic with Amazon S3
  • Backing up your system without running restic as root
• Participating
  • Debugging
  • Contributing
  • Security
  • Compatibility
  • Building documentation
• References
  • Design
  • Local Cache
  • REST Backend
• Talks
• FAQ
  • restic check reports packs that aren’t referenced in any index, is my repository broken?
  • How can I specify encryption passwords automatically?
  • How to prioritize restic’s IO and CPU time
  • Creating new repo on a Synology NAS via sftp fails
  • Why does restic perform so poorly on Windows?
• Manual
  • Usage help
  • Manage tags
  • Under the hood
  • Scripting
  • Temporary files
  • Caching