3 years later and still valid. Very nicely explained. First focusing on concept, then showing how to use it. The whole explanation holds together and does not omit "the obvious" things. Well done.
I've used restic for home backups for almost a year now and it's worked flawlessly for me - now I realized that it can also be used for version control of very large binary files (very common in CAD/CAM industries). There are definitely many more use cases for this project. Absolutely amazing work! Integration with rclone was an excellent addition as well.
I'm amazed. The quality of this video was top notch. The problem with most tutorial videos is that they are either explaining too much or just a specific scenario. I, as an IT admin, simply wanted to know how to set this up and the basic functions, regular scenarios and automation best practice. You mentioned all of this and never went overly-detailed. I really don't understand how you only have 56 subscribers. Well done!
Thank you for this clear presentation! I use restic in combination with naeon to store my backup (chunks) in untrusted environments like the cloud. That way I avoid having to depend on the cloud hosting provider when it comes to proper encryption key management.
Yes, restic and rclone are most rock solid stable, fast, and professional tools for reliable mass backup setups. Use them since years in a large FreeBSD and Windows-Server environment.
Good video. I would suggest that you make the font size larger in your browser and perhaps go full screen. This will allow people viewing on a TV or people with vision impairments a better chance of reading what you are presenting. I will definitely be checking out restic after this.
Full screen affects the visibility, While moving around youtube navigation bar overlaps on current prompt. Window mode is perfect. Just increase the font, and if possible please do 16:9 aspect ratio instead of ultra wide resolution.
can we use restic to backup entire linux os..somelthing like I dont want o re-install all of software again or setup its config, then using the backup, they are also restored...
I think good (or even best) practise in this case would be to use the pv command first, to make an image of this Linux disk, and then to backup this image using restic. The pv command would be “pv < /dev/sda > disk_image.img” where /dev/sda is your disk and disk_image.img the name of the image file to be created.
Great Vid! But how do you get rid of data (meaning not backup) data that was created within a certain time frame. For instance only do backup on everything older than 15 hours?
Thanks for the video! I am planning to use a NAS to do backups. From what you said it would be safe to use one restic repository to back up various computers. Backing up Windows partitions would be done through their Linux mounts. But: if I wanted to e.g. back up all of my data on /, partition would this also back up all of the mounted filesystems, including network drives?
Thanks for the video, but is there a known proper GUI addon for restic ? That would be good for simple tasks How fast did you find restic compared to other backup programs ? Heard someone saying it's faster
No GUI that I know about. I find that the largest component of how fast restic is the delta of the changes since your last backup. The first backup will always take the longest, while your second right after may not take nearly as long.
To compare restic "snapshots" with regular snapshot technology is not valid. Problem with restic they should never had used the name "snapshot" for a "backup". Products that use dedupe technology create backups not snapshots. Backups technology using snapshots is also known as "flat backups" a dedupe backup would never be considered a "flat backup"
You bring a solid point, A snapshot in restic is not like snapshots in other systems, where its a chain of Deltas, (Such as Vmware snapshots) but just a list of chunks from the index and how to assemble them. However, I can see why they used the name snapshot, since its pinned to a time and date, as well as some meta data.
3 years later and still valid. Very nicely explained. First focusing on concept, then showing how to use it. The whole explanation holds together and does not omit "the obvious" things. Well done.
I've used restic for home backups for almost a year now and it's worked flawlessly for me - now I realized that it can also be used for version control of very large binary files (very common in CAD/CAM industries). There are definitely many more use cases for this project. Absolutely amazing work! Integration with rclone was an excellent addition as well.
I'm amazed. The quality of this video was top notch. The problem with most tutorial videos is that they are either explaining too much or just a specific scenario. I, as an IT admin, simply wanted to know how to set this up and the basic functions, regular scenarios and automation best practice. You mentioned all of this and never went overly-detailed. I really don't understand how you only have 56 subscribers. Well done!
Agreed
Just got another one. I subscribed.
Such a great tutorial, thank you!
Thank you for this clear presentation! I use restic in combination with naeon to store my backup (chunks) in untrusted environments like the cloud. That way I avoid having to depend on the cloud hosting provider when it comes to proper encryption key management.
Just wanted to pop in to say thanks for the tutorial!
Yes, restic and rclone are most rock solid stable, fast, and professional tools for reliable mass backup setups. Use them since years in a large FreeBSD and Windows-Server environment.
This was a suprisingly high-quality video, I'm really shocked that you only have 100 subscribers!
Good video. I would suggest that you make the font size larger in your browser and perhaps go full screen. This will allow people viewing on a TV or people with vision impairments a better chance of reading what you are presenting. I will definitely be checking out restic after this.
Full screen affects the visibility, While moving around youtube navigation bar overlaps on current prompt. Window mode is perfect. Just increase the font, and if possible please do 16:9 aspect ratio instead of ultra wide resolution.
thanks for increasing my understanding
I've been using restic for a while now and didn't know about the `mount` command. holy shit!
Very useful video thank you ! Restic looks awesome
Great video!
Great video! How do you do the notifications? Is is built in to restic?
by using the command `notify-send`
can we use restic to backup entire linux os..somelthing like I dont want o re-install all of software again or setup its config, then using the backup, they are also restored...
I think good (or even best) practise in this case would be to use the pv command first, to make an image of this Linux disk, and then to backup this image using restic. The pv command would be “pv < /dev/sda > disk_image.img” where /dev/sda is your disk and disk_image.img the name of the image file to be created.
Great Vid! But how do you get rid of data (meaning not backup) data that was created within a certain time frame. For instance only do backup on everything older than 15 hours?
Thanks for the video! I am planning to use a NAS to do backups. From what you said it would be safe to use one restic repository to back up various computers. Backing up Windows partitions would be done through their Linux mounts. But: if I wanted to e.g. back up all of my data on /, partition would this also back up all of the mounted filesystems, including network drives?
I believe you can use an '--exclude' flag and list all of the files/folders you don't want to back up.
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Thanks for the video, but is there a known proper GUI addon for restic ? That would be good for simple tasks
How fast did you find restic compared to other backup programs ? Heard someone saying it's faster
No GUI that I know about.
I find that the largest component of how fast restic is the delta of the changes since your last backup. The first backup will always take the longest, while your second right after may not take nearly as long.
How do I make my command prompt look like yours? On Fedora, everything’s one color. 😢
To compare restic "snapshots" with regular snapshot technology is not valid. Problem with restic they should never had used the name "snapshot" for a "backup". Products that use dedupe technology create backups not snapshots. Backups technology using snapshots is also known as "flat backups" a dedupe backup would never be considered a "flat backup"
You bring a solid point, A snapshot in restic is not like snapshots in other systems, where its a chain of Deltas, (Such as Vmware snapshots) but just a list of chunks from the index and how to assemble them. However, I can see why they used the name snapshot, since its pinned to a time and date, as well as some meta data.
meatbags... hmm, someone must have played KOTOR :-)