Anyone using rustic?

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GitHub - rustic-rs/rustic: rustic - fast, encrypted, and deduplicated backups powered by Rust

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GitHub - rustic-rs/rustic: rustic - fast, encrypted, and deduplicated backups powered by Rust

Hey, you probably know about restic and borg for backups. They are pretty mature and very commonly used.

Rustic is a fully compatible reimplementation of restic in Rust and they do seem to have implemented a few improvements over restic. The developer even used to be a contributor on restic.

Is anyone here using it already? It looks super promising but I'd love to hear your opinion!

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I use restic extensively, and it works really really well... until it breaks. Then there's next-to-nothing you can do to fix the repo.

Rustic, on the other hand, has lock-less design, and repair options, so I end up using it to fix things. However, it has a number of rough edges: it uses its own wacky config file, its include/exclude options are wildly different and a bit painful, and to use a bunch of repo backends (like S3), you need to install, configure, and use rclone, which is poorly documented by rustic.