Backrest — The Complete Guide: A Web Interface and Scheduler on Top of restic
Backrest turns restic into a tool you manage from a browser, locally or remotely. You create a new repository or import an existing restic one, define scheduled backup plans, and maintenance runs in the background. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and is free under GPL-3.0.
Backrest
Gareth George and contributors
A web interface and scheduler on top of restic: create repositories, browse snapshots and restore files without the command line.
Get it from the vendorWhat you get
- Backup plans — folders, a destination and a schedule for each plan.
- Automatic maintenance — pruning old snapshots and checking repository integrity.
- Browse and restore — look through snapshots and restore files from the browser.
- Notifications and hooks — alerts on success or failure, and scripts before and after a backup.
- Every restic destination — S3, B2, Azure, SFTP, local folders and rclone remotes.
What to know — plus a security tip
It suits a home server, a NAS or a workstation that you want backed up to the cloud without the command line. Limitation: Backrest is relatively young and maintained mainly by one developer, but your data stays in the standard restic format, so you can always restore without it. Tip: if you open the interface remotely, enable password login and do not expose it directly to the internet.
Related tools
For the engine itself — restic. For more cloud destinations and copying between services — rclone. For an alternative with its own graphical interface — Kopia.
restic
restic project
Fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups — project folders to disk, NAS or cloud storage.
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rclone
rclone project
Sync and copy files to 70+ cloud storage services from the command line, and mount cloud drives as local disks.
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Kopia
Kopia project
Encrypted incremental backup with a GUI and scheduling — to local disks or the cloud storage of your choice.
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Duplicati
Duplicati Inc. and community
Encrypted, incremental, scheduled folder backup to cloud storage, SFTP, a NAS or an external drive, with a friendly browser interface.
Get it from the vendorThe bottom line
The most convenient way to run restic over the long term: all the strengths of the engine, with a clear interface and scheduling you do not have to write yourself.