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Backrest is a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup.

23 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 5 stories, 18 comments · first 2024-02-20 · latest 2026-09-17

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  1. …providers (I mean... 2 different providers plus my homelab disk). [1] https://immich.app/ [2] https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest
    comment by reddalo · 2026-09-17 · in Backups Aren't Simple
  2. …applies to all platforms but for Windows users that is a huge security hole in today's environment. https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest/issues/1047
    comment by Scottn1 · 2026-09-17 · in Backups Aren't Simple
  3. …few hard drives attached to it. All of my devices connect to it via Tailscale. I use the wonderful https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest as a web UI around restic. Every night, I back the data up to a Hetzner storage box…
    comment by TranquilMarmot · 2026-09-03 · in Creating backup storage sucks
  4. I use https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest to manage nightly encrypted backups of my Forgejo instance to a Hetzner Storage Box. <$4/mo for 500GB of storage. It's also where I back up my Immich library to. Immich automatically dumps its…
    comment by TranquilMarmot · 2026-04-24 · in Incident with multple GitHub services
  5. …a while. As client there are more options now (like Vorta, from them), but I have had success with https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest and the Restic backend.
    comment by noja · 2026-04-14 · in Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
  6. For those of you looking for an easy management UI for restic, backrest is amazing: https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest
    comment by Happily2020 · 2025-10-29 · in Database backups, dump files and restic
  7. …a docker container and a web interface to configure, monitor and restore your restic backups. [1] https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest
    comment by fundatus · 2025-10-09 · in Why Self-Host?
  8. You might want to check this out https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest
    comment by shelled · 2025-09-11 · in Tarsnap is cozy
  9. I switched to restic ( https://restic.net/ ) and the backrest webui ( https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest ) for Windows support. Files are deduplicated across machines with good compression support.
    comment by thangngoc89 · 2025-07-20 · in Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
  10. restic with https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest . I'd give second spot to borg (I use it with Vorta). I tried KopiaUI couple of times, it's not something I want as a personal backup tool.
    comment by shelled · 2025-06-09 · in BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore
  11. Here's a very actively developed GUI https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest - imho it has come the farthest and is the easiest in terms of use and ease. I have tried too many other restic CLIs/GUIs and settled on this.
    comment by shelled · 2025-06-09 · in BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore
  12. > it does not have a simple config file where you define your backup settings. Will this https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest/discussions/188 work for you? Also, I can add directory file to include exclude directly to this config or to…
    comment by crossroadsguy · 2024-10-14 · in Restic: Backups done right
  13. …snapshop browser right in the UI. That's kinda nice. It's really simple and in active development https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest . The dev (lead dev) https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest/discussions is very responsive. I know…
    comment by crossroadsguy · 2024-10-14 · in Restic: Backups done right
  14. …but it's pretty awkward. BackRest has a nice simple web GUI and makes basic automation very easy. https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest I'm surprised no one is selling Restic hosting as a straight up service. BackBlaze works well with…
    comment by NelsonMinar · 2024-10-13 · in Restic: Backups done right
  15. https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest going nicely with restic i do miss functionality of configurable full/incremental backups like in duplicity
    comment by tguvot · 2024-10-13 · in Restic: Backups done right
  16. …Still not solved after many years :( Now I use Borg + Restic and I am happy + GUI for Restic https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest + GUI for Borg https://github.com/borgbase/vorta
    comment by AdaX · 2024-09-30
  17. …Still not solved after many years :( Now I use Borg + Restic and I am happy + GUI for Restic https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest + GUI for Borg https://github.com/borgbase/vorta
    comment by AdaX · 2024-07-23 · in Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux
  18. …fullblown restic backup GUI - it only allows you to browse existing repositories" I use it Backrest https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest
    comment by AdaX · 2024-07-16 · in Restic-Browser: A GUI to browse and restore restic backup repositories