[sam_lowry_]

> But the simplicity of this script in charming.

An important feature of backups is the ability to restore them. As much as I love restic, I have at least one backup target with hard links.

[nine_k]

Have you ever faced a case when restic would not restore a backup? Or would not mount a remote backup?

I have a mirror that Syncthing maintains, with some staggered versioning; it seems similar, and should help me immediately in a case of clobbering something. Restic backups helped me several times in cases of catastrophic failures, and are now the default way of moving my stuff to a new machine.