Restray is a delightfully simple backup program that is entirely accessible through the system tray. It's powered by restic which offers incremental, deduplicated, and encrypted backups. Restray was written out of the need for a faster, cross-platform, and modern alternative to Apple's Time Machine. It's quite versatile and can be used by newbies and power users alike, with various useful but optional features.
Features
- It's cross-platform, available on MacOS, Linux, and Windows
- It's easy to use and understand, with configuration being relatively small
- It's light and doesn't rely on web technology, sitting at ~30MB memory usage idle
- It's reliable, utilizing restic behind the scenes for quick, space-efficient, secure backups
- It optionally supports rustic as a backend, but rustic support is still experimental
- It supports many types of destinations, local and remote (see restic repository docs)
- It has support for multiple profiles, each with different schedules and destinations
- It lets you open a shell with a profile's environment loaded for advanced CLI operations
- This is just a summary. Various other features are listed in the README
To view and restore snapshots, it's recommended to use a third-party tool such as restic-browser. If you're on MacOS/Linux, Restray's built-in mount action works, but you need FUSE installed to use it.
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Restray is still in beta, so you may experience an issue that I haven't caught yet. If you do notice any issues or have suggestions, please consider letting me know on the issue tracker.