Borg vs Restic: Painless Encrypted Backups You'll Actually Run

Sat, 16 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000

Everyone agrees backups are important, and almost nobody does them properly. The reason is rarely ignorance; it is friction. A backup scheme that is fiddly, slow or expensive simply does not get run, and an un-run backup is worth precisely nothing the day the disk dies. The good news is that two excellent open-source tools — BorgBackup and Restic — have made encrypted, deduplicated, automatable backups genuinely painless. This article walks through both, so you can pick one and actually use it.

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Borg vs Restic: Painless Encrypted Backups You'll Actually Run