rustic - fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups powered by pure Rust

Rustic is a backup tool that provides fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups. It reads and writes the restic repo format desribed in the design document and can therefore be used as a complete replacement for restic.

Note that rustic currently is in an beta release and misses tests. It is not yet considered to be ready for use in a production environment.

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Comparison with restic:

Improvements:

Allows using cold storage (e.g. AWS Glacier) repos which are only read in the restore command
Completely lock-free pruning; option instant-delete is available
Huge decrease in memory requirement
pack size can be customized
Already much faster than restic for most operations (but not yet fully speed optimized)
backup command can use .gitignore files
Snapshots save much more information
Allows to save some options in the config file via the command config
New command repo-info
snapshots latest command to show only the latest snapshot(s)
check command checks and uses cache; option --trust-cache is available
option prune --fast-repack for faster repacking
cat tree command accepts a snapshot and path to cat the tree blob
compression is already supported in released versions ;-)

Current limitations:

Backup source and restore destinations only on local file system
Runs so far only on Linux and MacOS, Windows support is WIP

Open points:

Add tests and benchmarks
Add more backup-sources and restore-destinations
Add missing commands: copy, dump, find, mount
Improve error handling
Parallelize the code even more and optimize for speed where useful

License

Licensed under either of:

at your option.

Contribution

Contributions in form of issues or PRs are very welcome.