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Restic guides

Hands-on guides that cover Restic. Every command is run and verified on a live server before it is published.

Set up restic against S3 object storage and take a first encrypted, deduplicated backup into a repository that lives off your app server.

See restic deduplication in action: a second backup stores almost nothing, and your snapshots stay full points in time you can restore.

Run the one restic restore test that turns a backup into a recovery: restore a snapshot to a clean location and confirm the data comes back intact.

Give restic a retention policy that prunes old snapshots, then wrap backup automation in a systemd timer that runs nightly and alerts on failure.