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restic/restic

DevOps & infrastructureGo#go#restic#backup#deduplication#dedupe
Total stars
36,218
Today
+4
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Fast, secure, efficient backup program

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About the project

Backup program with encryption, deduplication, and support for many backends (S3, B2, Azure, sftp, etc.). It creates snapshots, restores files, and mounts backups via FUSE.

Useful for
  • Set up daily backups of home directory to S3 storage
  • Restore individual files from a snapshot without full backup restore
  • Mount repository via FUSE and browse contents of old snapshots

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1.6 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 24, 2026, 10:53 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

02040August 1, 2026October 29, 2026

Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.

Why it’s trending

  • 4 stars so far today, about 11 expected by the end of the day.

Measured growth: the last 7 completed days

The full 7-day window is unavailable; no weekly total or comparison is calculated.

Daily measurements · UTC
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Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: September 24, 2026, 10:53 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →

Three GitHub discoveries in each edition

What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.

Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.

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Numbers

Total stars
36,218
Today
+4 stars on 2026-09-24 (UTC), ≈ 11 by evening
Forks
1,884
Issues and pull requests
6,055
Watchers
240
Language
Go
License
BSD-2-Clause
Latest release
v0.19.1 · July 5, 2026
Created
April 27, 2014
Last push
September 20, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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