restic/rest-server
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Rest Server is a high performance HTTP server that implements restic's REST backend API.
9 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 9 comments · first 2018-09-16 · latest 2025-07-20
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It is not particularly hard either. Checkout restic server. https://github.com/restic/rest-server/
comment by bobek · 2025-07-20 · in Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts -
There are several methods... there is also restic rest-server ( https://github.com/restic/rest-server ). I personally use ZFS with pull via ssh...
comment by sandreas · 2025-07-19 · in Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts -
…is available in restic, but only with the rest-server backend: https://github.com/restic/restic https://github.com/restic/rest-server which has to be started with --append-only. I use this systemd unit: [Unit] After=network-online.target…
comment by homebrewer · 2025-06-07 · in BorgBackup 2 has no server-side append-only anymore -
…(in case of malware takeover, etc), this can be solved by running rest-server with --append-only https://github.com/restic/rest-server It 403's any attempt to overwrite or delete old data.
comment by homebrewer · 2024-10-13 · in Restic: Backups done right -
…also enjoy having the same backup mechanism for my phone, laptop, and server. On local laptop: run https://github.com/restic/rest-server/ to accept the incoming data, then (if 1234 is the port that rest-server runs on): user@laptop:~$ ssh…
comment by lucb1e · 2022-12-26 · in Ask HN: Has anyone successfully recovered photos from a broken Android phone? -
…the decryption keys as a backup client. [1] https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/v0.13.0 [2] https://github.com/restic/rest-server/ [3] https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/060_forget.html#secu... [4]…
comment by lucgommans · 2022-03-27 · in Restic 0.13.0 -
…even mean? You can compile Go or Rust programs on any Linux machine with the build tools. I can't build github.com/restic/rest-server because my golang compiler is too old. Admittedly I'm running something relatively old (but still…
comment by lucb1e · 2021-12-03 · in This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem -
The append-only mode can be implemented using https://github.com/restic/rest-server or services like rsync.net that offer read-only zfs snapshots. Doesn’t solve the asymmetric crypto of course.
comment by dividuum · 2021-11-13 · in Restic – Backups Done Right -
You can do it with the restic server ( https://github.com/restic/rest-server ). Don't know if it is implemented in the S3 backend.
comment by jsiepkes · 2018-09-16 · in Packnback: asymmetrically encrypted backups