https://github.com/ad-on-is/resticity

Hey guys,

I’ve been building a frontend for restic the past couple of weeks, and it’s at the stage where the app is finally ready and usable. So I wanted to share it with the world. Oh, and it’s FOSS of course.

It’s intended to be used either as a cross-platform desktop app (built using wails) or to be run in a Docker container, for homelab uses, etc.

PRs and feature requests are more than welcome :-)

Right now, I could also use some help for distributing it across the different platforms, AUR, Flatpak, etc.

I hope you guys like it. Cheers!

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
    7·
    8 months ago

    This looks nice, good job!

    On a related note, does anyone have any good reasons as to why I should be using Restic instead of Borg? (my Borg backups are all local btw - generally they’re snapshots of various projects I’m working on, so I don’t need any cloud features).

    • Buckshot@programming.dev
      5·
      8 months ago

      I use restic but I switched from Borg because of the cloud features. Outside of that, there’s not a lot of differences really. If you’re happy with Borg keep with it.

  • OSH@lemmy.ml
    4·
    8 months ago

    It’s great to see more and more tools around restic.

    DejaDup also recently added restic support.

  • drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    First im hearing of restic, Haven’t looked too much into it but it seems like it could be an alternative to rclone for me in some aspects

    • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Sometimes. Depends what you’re backing up to. In some cases it would work in tandem with rclone.

      I really like its architecture. The efficiency is really nice when pushing to the cloud and not making so many transactions.

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
    2·
    8 months ago

    It looks very nice, but I’m not familiar with wails. Is it lightweight? I currently just use a pwsh script to manage restic, but would be nice to have a gui

    • adONis@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      8 months ago

      Compared to electron it is lightweight. i.e. it doesn’t include full Chrome, but a webkit webview, which also has its caveats, but does the job just fine.

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Very nice looking, but judging from the screenshot, the app window seems to be massive? It doesn’t fit on my Macbook Air, and I’m sure won’t fit on my various 1366x768 Linux laptops. Or maybe the app creates scrollbars automatically? Also, does it have a light theme, or is it only dark? (I have a lot of astigmatism, so dark themes aren’t readable to my eyes). Other than that, it looks great!