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Restic
Fast, secure, and efficient backup program
As of 30 August 2026, Restic is free to use. Restic is a fast, secure backup program that supports multiple backends. Softwr lists it under Backup. Restic is made by Restic Contributors, launched in 2014, available on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Overview
What Restic does
Restic is a fast, secure backup program that supports multiple backends. It features content-defined chunking, cryptographic verification, and efficient deduplication with a simple command-line interface.
What people use it for
- Encrypted deduplicated backups to S3, B2, SFTP and local disk from the command line
- Scripted server backups with snapshot retention policies
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Restic.
- Cold storage is not natively supported; restoring from S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive is only available as an experimental feature behind a feature flag
- A Windows file whose name contains a character Windows treats as invalid cannot be read by restic and has to be renamed
- Antivirus real-time protection degrades performance on Windows unless the restic binary is added to an exclusions list
- On large repositories the built-in five minute stuck-request timeout fires during file listing and has to be raised manually with --stuck-request-timeout
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Pricing
What Restic costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- Content-defined chunking
- Encryption
- Multiple backends
Capabilities
Features
Content-defined chunking
Cryptographic verification
Deduplication
Encryption
Multiple backends
Snapshot management
AWS S3
Integration with AWS S3
Azure
Integration with Azure
Google Cloud
Integration with Google Cloud
Backblaze B2
Integration with Backblaze B2
SFTP
Integration with SFTP
REST server
Integration with REST server
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
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How much does restic cost?
Restic is entirely free to use and completely open source. There are no subscription tiers, paid plans, or licensing costs.
SourceBehind it
Who makes Restic
- Company
- Restic Contributors
- Based in
- Open Source Community
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- rustic
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- Acronis Cyber Protect
- Spanning Backup
- CloudAlly
- Borg Backup
- Clonezilla
- Comet Backup
- Amanda Enterprise
- Apple Time Machine
- BDRShield
- Clumio
- Cohesity
- Dell EMC NetWorker
- EaseUS Todo Backup
- Clonezilla
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Best Backup software alternatives
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