Backrest
Web UI and orchestrator for restic backups across local and cloud storage
Overview
Backrest is a web-based UI and scheduler built on top of restic, providing a friendly interface to configure, run, and monitor encrypted, deduplicated backups to local disks, S3, B2, and many cloud targets. It handles scheduling, retention policies, notifications, and browsing/restoring snapshots. It's an easy self-hosted way to back up data instead of relying on Dropbox/Drive for safekeeping.
Where it falls short of Dropbox
- It's a backup tool, not a live sync/share platform like Dropbox
- No real-time file syncing across devices or shareable links
- No multi-user collaboration or document editing
- Restore is snapshot-based rather than continuous file availability
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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