This looks very interesting, and definitely works on Windows under NTFS.  I'm running my first backup right now.  And given that it's a straightforward command line interface (for which many GUI interfaces appear to have been written) and you can just put together a BAT file to run your backup at whatever interval you'd like, it's quite accessible.

I started this topic so if an in-depth discussion of using restic is wanted, it could happen here.

Here's the command line I'm using to do a backup of my own user data folder:

restic backup C:\Users\brite --password-file .\ResticPWD.txt --verbose --use-fs-snapshot -r Y:\Restic-Repo

Which broken down is the call to restic for a backup
of C:\Users\brite
where my password for the Restic-Repo (restic encrypts everything, and you must create a password when you create your Repo) is in the file ResticPWD.txt
using verbose output
using Windows own VSS shadow file system (which most backup utilities do, you have to tell restic you want it to do this)
into the restic repo folder Y:\Restic-Repo
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13)

Let me hasten to add that I *do* like cologne.  I just much prefer it as a subtle hint instead of an aromachete.

        ~ Clay Colwell

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 08:54 PM, Governor staten wrote:

where is a link to this?

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restic · Backups done right!
The link to the GitHub page was in the original topic, but I should have given the link to their main website again, so there it is!
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13)

Let me hasten to add that I *do* like cologne.  I just much prefer it as a subtle hint instead of an aromachete.

        ~ Clay Colwell

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 02:08 PM, Dan Beaver wrote:

I followed the link given and I see no download link at all.

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It's there, but because GitHub is a project and release management system, it does not use the terminology "download" for releases.  If you go to the GitHub page and search for the word, "releases", the latest release, 

restic 0.15.1

, is right beneath it (and, of course, I just gave the direct link to the releases page, too).  On the releases page, since this so happens to be a product that runs on multiple operating systems, you have to look under the Assets listing to find the correct download for the operating system you are using.  When things are only for one OS, like Windows, the assets list is generally short.  Not in this case, the list is quite long.  Anyone here who's got a 64-bit version of Windows will want:  restic_0.15.1_windows_amd64.zip

 

I strongly suggest going to the release page and having a look at the Assets list even though I've provided the direct download link.  This is something you need to be able to do if you are using GitHub to fetch software that runs on multiple platforms.  You can expect the word "windows" to be part of the name for an asset that runs on windows, so you can search on that.  But it's worth taking a look at the assets list here just so you will have seen one for a multi-platform project and won't be surprised the next time you have to deal with one. 
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 11 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 22H2, Build 22621; Office 2016, Version 16.0.15726.20188, 32-bit; Android 12 (MIUI 13)

Let me hasten to add that I *do* like cologne.  I just much prefer it as a subtle hint instead of an aromachete.

        ~ Clay Colwell