rustic-rs/rustic
rustic - fast, encrypted, and deduplicated backups powered by Rust
fast, encrypted, and deduplicated backups
About
rustic is a backup tool that provides fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups.
It reads and writes the restic repo format described in the
design document and can be used as a restic replacement in most cases.
It is implemented in Rust, a performant,
memory-efficient, and reliable cross-platform systems programming language.
Hence rustic supports all major operating systems (Linux, MacOs, *BSD), with
Windows support still being experimental.
Stability
rustic currently is in beta state and misses regression tests. It is not
recommended to use it for production backups, yet.
rustic Libraries
The rustic project is split into multiple crates:
- rustic - the main binary
- rustic-core - the core library
- rustic-backend - the library for
supporting various backends
Features
- Backup data is deduplicated and encrypted.
- Backup storage can be local or cloud storages, including cold storages.
- Allows multiple clients to concurrently access a backup repository using
lock-free operations. - Backups by default are append-only on the repository.
- The operations are robustly designed and can be safely aborted and
efficiently resumed. - Snapshot organization is possible by hostname, backup paths, label and tags.
Also a rich set of metadata is saved with each snapshot. - Retention policies and cleaning of old backups can be highly customized.
- Follow-up backups only process changed files, but still create a complete
backup snapshot. - In-place restore only modifies files which are changed.
- Uses config files for easy configuration of all every-day commands, see
example config files.
Contact
You can ask questions in the Discussions or have a look at the
FAQ.
| Contact | Where? |
|---|---|
| Issue Tracker | GitHub Issues |
| Discord | |
| Discussions | GitHub Discussions |
Getting started
Please check our
documentation for more
information on how to get started.
Installation
From binaries
cargo-binstall
cargo binstall rustic-rsWindows
Scoop
scoop install rusticmacOS
Homebrew
brew install rusticOr you can check out the
releases.
Nightly binaries are available
here.
Docker
docker pull ghcr.io/rustic-rs/rusticFrom source
Beware: This installs the latest development version, which might be
unstable.
cargo install --git https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic.git rustic-rscrates.io
cargo install --locked rustic-rsDifferences to restic?
We have collected some improvements of rustic over restic
here.
Contributing
Tried rustic and not satisfied? Don't just walk away! You can help:
- You can report issues or suggest new features on our
Discord server or using
Github Issues!
Do you know how to code or got an idea for an improvement? Don't keep it to
yourself!
- Contribute fixes or new
features via a pull requests!
Please make sure, that you read the
contribution guide.
Minimum Rust version policy
This crate's minimum supported rustc version is 1.88.0.
The current policy is that the minimum Rust version required to use this crate
can be increased in minor version updates. For example, if crate 1.0 requires
Rust 1.20.0, then crate 1.0.z for all values of z will also require Rust
1.20.0 or newer. However, crate 1.y for y > 0 may require a newer minimum
version of Rust.
In general, this crate will be conservative with respect to the minimum
supported version of Rust.
License
Licensed under either of:
at your option.