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Restic

Fast secure backup tool with S3 support.

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Fast secure backup tool with S3 support.

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  • Benchmark: 2026 Backup Tools — Velero 2.0 vs. Restic 0.17 vs. Duplicati 2.0 for 1TB Data. 1TB benchmark on 16 vCPUs, 64GB RAM, 2TB NVMe, 10Gbps. Restic 0.17: full backup 162MB/s (1h42m), incremental 210MB/s (5m for 100GB change). Best deduplication: 1TB → 620GB (38% reduction). Full restore 158MB/s, single-file restore 3.4s for 50MB. Best for cross-platform CLI backups with top-tier storage savings.
  • The restic backup program. Restic GitHub organization repositories. Main repo: 33k stars, 1.7k forks, 466 issues, 93 PRs. Updated Apr 1, 2026. Rest Server updated Feb 3, 2026. Per GitHub (orgs/restic) (2026-04-01).
  • Releases · dhis2/dhis2-server-tools. v1.6.0 adds restic + rsync file system backups with SSH keypair and cron. v1.6.1 bug fixes for backup full /opt/dhis2/ directory. Per GitHub (dhis2/dhis2-server-tools) (2026-03-26).
  • GitHub. Older benchmark (2017) of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity using publicly available datasets. restic second fastest but consumed more CPU time than elapsed real time, possibly due to too many goroutines in local storage backend. Per GitHub (gilbertchen/benchmarking) (2017-06-25).

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