https://www.rusinov.ie/enContents © 2026 <a href="mailto:vladimir.rusinov@gmail.com">Vladimir Rusinov</a> Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:19:27 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/en/posts/2020/backups-part-2-files/Vladimir Rusinov<div><p>This post is a follow-up to <a href="/en/posts/2020/backups-part-1-strategy/">a post where I talk about backups strategy</a>.</p> <p>Here I describe my solution for file backups from my Linux computers, and don't yet go into the subject of other devices and online services.</p> <p>After some experimentation I decided to use <a href="https://restic.net/">restic</a> for this. Restic is a modern, open-source backup program with an active community. It is written in Go. It runs on Linux (but also BSD, Mac and Windows) and can back up to local disks as well as remote/cloud services.</p> <p>And as I wanted my backups to be cheap, "pay as you go" and off-site I've opted to use Backblaze for storage.</p> <h2 id="why-restic">Why restic?</h2> <p><a href="/en/posts/2020/backups-part-2-files/">Read more…</a> (8 min remaining to read)</p></div>backupslinuxreliabilityrestic/en/posts/2020/backups-part-2-files/Sun, 01 Nov 2020 15:33:30 GMT