How I finally retired the legacy ~/.restic.sh script in favor of ~/.rustic.sh using native TOML profiles, config inheritance, a single backup command per repository, silent exclusion fixes with as-path, and a dual disaster-recovery guide for both rustic and restic.
A while ago I presented my backup routine here on the blog using the excellent restic. Now I bring my impressions, installation instructions and a hands-on benchmark of rustic, a Rust reimplementation fully compatible with restic repositories, faster, lock-free and packed with new features that are already running daily on my Manjaro desktop.
Two years ago, my last post before this blog went offline was "use atuin and browse your shell history", a short introduction to this fantastic tool. Now I'd like to talk about the new features introduced in recent versions and what has improved since that first post.
No matter which shell you use on Linux, macOS or even Windows, with atuin.sh you will never again get lost in the endless universe of […]
Google's results have been getting worse every day lately, especially for searches in English. Since my hobby is selfhosting , I looked for an alternative […]
restic is a backup utility that ensures data integrity, and its main feature is the ability to keep data encrypted in a repository structured much […]
These two utilities are cousins, one was inspired by the other, and they are simply the two most useful little things I have found lately, […]