[Svenstaro]

Since this is HN, we also need to mention [Rustic](https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic) which is better since it's in Rust.

[bomewish]

Funny but serious q: anyone used this as drop in replacement? Who wouldn’t want to use less memory and get faster backups??

[cvalka]

It's better because it supports append only and is declarative.

[risson]

You can achieve append only with restic with S3, proper access rules and lifecycle policies

[funcDropShadow]

Is there some writeup how to achieve that?

[risson]

I found [0] for restic + rclone.

I personally use this Ansible role [1] to deploy restic and then just configure my buckets with the ACLs described in the README and a lifecycle policy so that an override of a file creates a new version instead. Currently I have it so old versions expire on their own, and no one except the account admin can delete them.

[0] https://ruderich.org/simon/notes/append-only-backups-with-re... [1] https://gitlab.com/byh0ki-org/infra/ansible/roles/restic/