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title: "restic"
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category: "Backup, files and security"
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tagline: "Fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups, and the engine behind CoreDesktop's daily backups."
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source: "pacman"
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package: "restic"
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command: "restic"
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website: "https://restic.net/"
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code: "https://github.com/restic/restic"
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links:
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- name: "restic documentation"
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url: "https://restic.readthedocs.io/"
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---
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## What it is
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restic is a backup program. It saves snapshots of your files into a repository on a local disk, an SFTP server or a cloud storage service. Every snapshot is encrypted, and data that hasn't changed since the last one is stored only once, so frequent backups stay small and quick.
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## Why it's here
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- **Encrypted by default.** A repository can't be read without its passphrase, wherever it's stored.
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- **Small and fast.** Deduplication means each daily backup only uploads what changed.
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- **Reaches almost anywhere.** Through rclone it can back up to dozens of storage services, including Nextcloud.
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## On CoreDesktop
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restic runs CoreDesktop's daily backups of your home folder to your Nextcloud files, once you run `configure backup`. How they work, what's left out and how long backups are kept is on the [Utilities page](/utilities/#backups). To look at your backups or get files back:
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```
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source ~/.local/share/coredesktop/system/backup-env.sh
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restic snapshots
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```
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See [restoring from a backup](/utilities/#restoring-from-a-backup) for the rest. restic is installed from pacman, and `update` keeps it current.
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