Web UI and orchestrator for Restic backup.

Backrest is a web-accessible backup solution built on top of restic and providing a WebUI which wraps the restic CLI and makes it easy to create repos, browse snapshots, and restore files. Additionally, Backrest can run in the background and take an opinionated approach to scheduling snapshots and orchestrating repo health operations.

  • Import your existing restic repositories
  • Cron scheduled backups and health operations (e.g. prune and forget)
  • UI for browing and restoring files from snapshots
  • Configurable backup notifications (e.g. Discord, Slack, Shoutrrr, Gotify)
  • Add shell command hooks to run before and after backup operations.
  • Compatible with rclone remotes
  • Cross-platform support (Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, Docker)
  • Backup to any restic supported storage (e.g. S3, B2, Azure, GCS, local, SFTP, and all rclone remotes)
Get startedOpen on GitHub →
MacOS
brew tap garethgeorge/homebrew-backrest-tap
brew install backrest
brew services start backrest
Arch Linux
paru -Sy backrest
sudo systemctl enable --now backrest@$USER.service
docker-compose
version: "3.2"
services:
  backrest:
    image: garethgeorge/backrest
    container_name: backrest
    hostname: backrest
    volumes:
      - ./backrest/data:/data
      - ./backrest/config:/config
      - ./backrest/cache:/cache
    environment:
      - BACKREST_DATA=/data
      - BACKREST_CONFIG=/config/config.json 
      - XDG_CACHE_HOME=/cache 
      - TZ=America/Los_Angeles
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 9898:9898