How To Backup and restore data using Restic On Linux | Linux Today

How To Backup and restore data using Restic On Linux

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Senthilkumar
Mar 16, 2020

Restic is a free, fast, open source, secure and cross-platform backup program, written using Go programming language. Restic encrypts the data with AES-256 in counter mode and authenticate it using Poly1305-AES cryptographic message authentication code. Backing up and restoring data with restic is really fast, and easy. In this tutorial, we will see how to install restic and how to backup and restore data using Restic on Linux.

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