Resticity - a cross-platform frontend for restic
Resticity - a cross-platform frontend for restic
https://github.com/ad-on-is/resticity
Hey guys,
I've been building a frontend for restic the past couple of weeks, and it's at the stage where the app is finally ready and usable. So I wanted to share it with the world. Oh, and it's FOSS of course.
It's intended to be used either as a cross-platform desktop app (built using wails) or to be run in a Docker container, for homelab uses, etc.
PRs and feature requests are more than welcome :-)
Right now, I could also use some help for distributing it across the different platforms, AUR, Flatpak, etc.
I hope you guys like it. Cheers!
This looks nice, good job!
On a related note, does anyone have any good reasons as to why I should be using Restic instead of Borg? (my Borg backups are all local btw - generally they're snapshots of various projects I'm working on, so I don't need any cloud features).
I like restic because everything seems to happen client-side, and the client pushes the encrypted backups to the server without having to install restic on the back end.
That said, I've never needed to restore my data with either backup solution, so I can't speak to the validity of the backups.
I use restic but I switched from Borg because of the cloud features. Outside of that, there's not a lot of differences really. If you're happy with Borg keep with it.
It's great to see more and more tools around restic.
DejaDup also recently added restic support.
It looks very nice, but I'm not familiar with wails. Is it lightweight? I currently just use a pwsh script to manage restic, but would be nice to have a gui
Compared to electron it is lightweight. i.e. it doesn't include full Chrome, but a webkit webview, which also has its caveats, but does the job just fine.
First im hearing of restic, Haven't looked too much into it but it seems like it could be an alternative to rclone for me in some aspects
Sometimes. Depends what you're backing up to. In some cases it would work in tandem with rclone.
I really like its architecture. The efficiency is really nice when pushing to the cloud and not making so many transactions.
I also like that with the rest-server you can configure it with append-only, so even if someone wants to encrypt or delete the data they are not able to modify the existing backup
Interesting, ill have to look into it for sure then
I've been trying to create an AUR package for this, but can't figure out how to build more than just the server backend (based off of the Dockerfile). Is there a way to build it without
wails? I can't get that to work in the PKGBUILD.Let's move this discussion over to GitHub, where I at least get the notifications for new messages.
I just made a PKGBUILD and commited it to the repo. Would you mind having a quick look at it and see if it's good enough?
Right now, I'm looking through the docs of the AUR on how to publish it.
Regarding how to publish the package, there are a few GitHub Actions that make it easy, like this one.
Thank you for making a PKGBUILD for this!
I just tried it, but I have the same issue when I was attempting to build mine:
... -> Downloading 1.0.0.tar.gz... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 100 331k 0 331k 0 0 408k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 880k ==> Validating source files with sha256sums... 1.0.0.tar.gz ... Passed ==> Extracting sources... -> Extracting 1.0.0.tar.gz with bsdtar ==> Starting prepare()... go: downloading github.com/wailsapp/wails v1.16.9 ==> Starting build()... /var/home/trevor/git/PKGBUILD: line 34: wails: command not found ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting...I'm not familiar enough with
wailsto know how to build without it.If you require it as a dependency, it would only work for Arch users with the AUR enabled, as it
wailsdoesn't seem to be in the main repositories.Hi @[email protected] ! Thanks for resticity and your PKGBUILD. However, I have to modify it and replace "packaging/resticity.desktop" with "$startdir/resticity.png" and "packaging/resticity.desktop" with "$startdir/resticity.desktop"
Anyway, seems to works, I can push a backup, but when I go to repositories, resticity try to get snapshots (LOADING Snapshots) and failed with this error : "json: slice unexpected end of JSON input" Thanks for your help.
Flatpak maybe?
I'm still fighting through the docs of Flatpak.. glibc is a pain 😅 Will have ro look into AppImages and brew
Very nice looking, but judging from the screenshot, the app window seems to be massive? It doesn't fit on my Macbook Air, and I'm sure won't fit on my various 1366x768 Linux laptops. Or maybe the app creates scrollbars automatically? Also, does it have a light theme, or is it only dark? (I have a lot of astigmatism, so dark themes aren't readable to my eyes). Other than that, it looks great!
yeah, a light theme will be implemented later on.