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Restic Design Principles
========================
Restic is a program that does backups right and was designed with the following
principles in mind:
Introduction
============
* Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you might be
tempted to skip it. Restic should be easy to configure and use, so that, in
the event of a data loss, you can just restore it. Likewise,
restoring data should not be complicated.
* Fast: Backing up your data with restic should only be limited by your
network or hard disk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day.
Nobody does backups if it takes too much time. Restoring backups should only
transfer data that is needed for the files that are to be restored, so that
this process is also fast.
* Verifiable: Much more important than backup is restore, so restic enables
you to easily verify that all data can be restored.
* Secure: Restic uses cryptography to guarantee confidentiality and integrity
of your data. The location the backup data is stored is assumed not to be a
trusted environment (e.g. a shared space where others like system
administrators are able to access your backups). Restic is built to secure
your data against such attackers.
* Efficient: With the growth of data, additional snapshots should only take
the storage of the actual increment. Even more, duplicate data should be
de-duplicated before it is actually written to the storage back end to save
precious backup space.
restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. Detailed
information can be found in [the documentation](doc/index.md) and [the user
manual](doc/Manual.md). The [design document](doc/Design.md) lists the
technical background and gives detailed information about the structure of the
repository and the data saved therein.
The latest documentation can be viewed online at
<https://restic.readthedocs.org/en/latest>. On the bottom left corner there is
a menu that allows switching to the documentation and user manual for the
latest released version.
Build restic
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restic [OPTIONS] <command>
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More documentation can be found on the [website](https://restic.github.io),
especially in the [user manual](https://restic.github.io/manual).
More documentation can be found in the [user manual](doc/Manual.md).
At the moment, the only tested compiler for restic is the official Go compiler.
Building restic with gccgo may work, but is not supported.
Compatibility
=============
Backward compatibility for backups is important so that our users are always
able to restore saved data. Therefore restic follows [Semantic
Versioning](http://semver.org) to clearly define which versions are compatible.
The repository and data structures contained therein are considered the "Public
API" in the sense of Semantic Versioning. This goes for all released versions
of restic, this may not be the case for the master branch.
We guarantee backward compatibility of all repositories within one major version;
as long as we do not increment the major version, data can be read and restored.
We strive to be fully backward compatible to all prior versions.
Contribute and Documentation
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Talks
=====
The following talks will be or have been given about restic:
* 2016-01-31: Lightning Talk at the Go Devroom at FOSDEM 2016, Brussels, Belgium
* 2016-01-29: [restic - Backups mal richtig](https://media.ccc.de/v/c4.openchaos.2016.01.restic): Public lecture in German at [CCC Cologne e.V.](https://koeln.ccc.de) in Cologne, Germany
* 2015-08-23: [A Solution to the Backup Inconvenience](https://programm.froscon.de/2015/events/1515.html): Lecture at [FROSCON 2015](https://www.froscon.de) in Bonn, Germany
* 2015-02-01: [Lightning Talk at FOSDEM 2015](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM-MfeflUZ8&t=11m40s): A short introduction (with slightly outdated command line)
* 2015-01-27: [Talk about restic at CCC Aachen](https://videoag.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de/?view=player&lectureid=4442#content) (in German)
License
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