Restic

File Format
Name	Restic
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Backup Restic
Released	2014

Restic is an incremental backup program meant primarily for Linux primarily written by Alexander Neumann. Its unit of storage is the "repository", which can store data from multiple sources, but with the same password and other parameters.

Identification

Repositories consist of many extensionless, encrypted files, organized in a directory structure whose top-level directories are called "lock", "snapshots", "index", "keys", and "data". There is also a file in the root directory of the repository called "config".

Software

• Restic
  • Github repository

Specifications

• Restic repository format

Links

• A performance comparison of Duplicacy, restic, Attic, and duplicity