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restic

Fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups

provisional — pending verificationBSD-2self-hostable
Arete score
5.0 / 5
Autonomy5
Return5
Efficiency5
Transparency5
ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →
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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending. Working notes ↓

Why it's listed

restic is listed in backup & object storage because it competes on utility: fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups. It's community-maintained open source: the incentive is the tool itself. Licensed BSD-2; pricing: free. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License
BSD-2
Pricing
Free
Funding model
Community OSS
Self-hostable
Yes — deploy difficulty: easy
Replaces
Backblaze (DIY)
Verification
Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

Evidence notes

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