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[](https://waffle.io/restic/restic)
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[](https://travis-ci.org/restic/restic)
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[](https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/restic/restic)
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WARNING
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WARNING: At the moment, consider restic as alpha quality software, it is not
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yet finished. Do not use it for real data!
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Restic
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======
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Restic is a program that does backups right. The design goals are:
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* Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you are
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tempted to skip it. Restic should be easy to configure and use, so that in
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the unlikely event of a data loss you can just restore it. Likewise,
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restoring data should not be complicated.
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* Fast: Backing up your data with restic should only be limited by your
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network or harddisk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day.
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Nobody does backups if it takes too much time. Restoring backups should only
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transfer data that is needed for the files that are to be restored, so that
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this process is also fast.
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* Verifiable: Much more important than backup is restore, so restic enables
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you to easily verify that all data can be restored.
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* Secure: Restic uses cryptography to guarantee confidentiality and integrity
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of your data. The location the backup data is stored is assumed not to be a
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trusted environment (e.g. a shared space where others like system
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administrators are able to access your backups). Restic is built to secure
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your data against such attackers.
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* Efficient: With the growth of data, additional snapshots should only take
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the storage of the actual increment. Even more, duplicate data should be
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de-duplicated before it is actually written to the storage backend to save
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precious backup space.
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Building
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========
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Install Go (at least 1.3), then run:
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export GOPATH=~/src/go
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go get github.com/restic/restic/cmd/restic
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$GOPATH/bin/restic --help
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Contribute
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==========
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Contributions are welcome! Please make sure that all code submitted in
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pull-requests is properly formatted with `gofmt`. Installing the script
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`fmt-check` from https://github.com/edsrzf/gofmt-git-hook locally as a
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pre-commit hook checks formatting before commiting, just copy this script to
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`.git/hooks/pre-commit`.
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If you are unsure what to do, please have a look at the github issues,
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especially those tagged
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[minor complexity](https://github.com/restic/restic/labels/minor%20complexity).
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Contact
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=======
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If you discover a bug or find something surprising, please feel free to [open a
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github issue](https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/new). If you would like
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to chat about restic, there is also the IRC channel #restic on
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irc.freenode.net. Or just write me an email :)
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License
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=======
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Restic is licensed under "BSD 2-Clause License". You can find the complete text
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in the file `LICENSE`.
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