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rustic - fast, encrypted, and deduplicated backups powered by Rust
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## About



`rustic` is a backup tool that provides fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups.



It reads and writes the [restic][1] repo format described in the

[design document][2] and can be used as a *restic* replacement in most cases.



It is implemented in [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/), 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](https://crates.io/crates/rustic-rs) - the main binary

- [rustic-core](https://crates.io/crates/rustic_core) - the core library

- [rustic-backend](https://crates.io/crates/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](/config/).



## Contact



You can ask questions in the [Discussions][3] or have a look at the

[FAQ](https://rustic.cli.rs/docs/FAQ.html).



| Contact       | Where?                                                                                                          |

| ------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

| Issue Tracker | [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic/issues)                                                     |

| Discord       | [![Discord](https://dcbadge.vercel.app/api/server/WRUWENZnzQ?style=flat-square)](https://discord.gg/WRUWENZnzQ) |

| Discussions   | [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic/discussions)                                           |



## Getting started



Please check our

[documentation](https://rustic.cli.rs/docs/getting_started.html) for more

information on how to get started.



## Installation



### From binaries



#### [cargo-binstall](https://crates.io/crates/cargo-binstall)



```bash

cargo binstall rustic-rs

```



#### Windows



##### [Scoop](https://scoop.sh/)



```bash

scoop install rustic

```



Or you can check out the

[releases](https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic/releases).



Nightly binaries are available

[here](https://rustic.cli.rs/docs/nightly_builds.html).



### From source



**Beware**: This installs the latest development version, which might be

unstable.



```bash

cargo install --git https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic.git rustic-rs

```



### crates.io



```bash

cargo install rustic-rs

```



## Differences to `restic`?



We have collected some improvements of `rustic` over `restic`

[here](https://rustic.cli.rs/docs/comparison-restic.html).



## 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](https://discord.gg/WRUWENZnzQ) or using

  [Github Issues](https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic/issues/new/choose)!



Do you know how to code or got an idea for an improvement? Don't keep it to

yourself!



- [Contribute fixes](https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic/contribute) or new

  features via a pull requests!



Please make sure, that you read the

[contribution guide](https://rustic.cli.rs/docs/contributing-to-rustic.html).



## Minimum Rust version policy



This crate's minimum supported `rustc` version is `1.70.0`.



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:



- [Apache License, Version 2.0](./LICENSE-APACHE)

- [MIT license](./LICENSE-MIT)



at your option.



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[//]: # (general links)

[1]: https://github.com/restic/restic

[2]: https://github.com/restic/restic/blob/master/doc/design.rst

[3]: https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic/discussions