backrest

Backup & Recovery

A web‑accessible backup manager that wraps restic, offering a UI for creating repos, scheduling snapshots, and restoring files across Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD and Docker.

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Features

WebUI for managing restic repositories (create, browse, restore)
Cross‑platform support: Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD and Docker
Automated scheduling of backups and maintenance tasks (prune, check, forget)
Configurable notifications (Discord, Slack, Gotify, Healthchecks, Shoutrrr)
Pre/post backup command hooks for custom scripts

Recent releases

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v1.13.0 New feature 1mo

Notable features

Experimental multihost sync
macOS and Linux tray binaries

Full changelog

1.13.0 (2026-05-04)

Features

apply multihost sync refinements found in validation pass (5053371)
experimental multihost sync (#1204) (b98b1dc)
macOS and linux tray binaries (#1163) (87d7623)

Bug Fixes

Alpine Docker images for arm/v6 and arm/v7 architectures (#1165) (4ebc22b)
always allow CORS OPTIONS requests even behind authenticated endpoints (#1194) (12008e5)
config migration bug w.r.t. multihost sync (75cbd68)
improve install.sh on macOS and linux (cd6c5ed)
improve vite bundle splitting to avoid large bundles (a922d0a)
minor windows installer fixes (5b83453)
optimize backrest ui performance (#1195) (8e9470c)
post PQ safe transport for syncapi (#1216) (aed0073)
refine backrest SFTP UI (#1193) (88f0fbc)
refine config validation policies (b7e9448)
RESTIC_PASSWORD env shold not take precedent over repo passwords (#1192) (27e1d18)
show repo URI in sidebar tooltip instead of repo ID (#1209) (7e064a2)
wrong order of parameters in task name (#1168) (b3edd06)

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v1.12.1 Bug fix 2mo

Fixed snapshot hook conditions with auto-unlock enabled, disabled strict SFTP trust checking, increased buffer size for large repository handling, updated Docker images with latest rclone, and added ARM v7 platform support.

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v1.12.0 New feature 3mo

Notable features