Restic Backup Manager

A modern, cross-platform GUI for restic backups — built with Go + React + Wails

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✨ Features

• 🗄️ Multiple repositories — manage local, SFTP, S3 and other restic backends
• ⬆️ Backup — select source folders, define excludes, live progress
• 📋 Snapshots — browse, view and delete snapshots
• ⬇️ Full Restore — restore an entire snapshot to any target folder
• 🎯 Selective Restore — browse snapshot contents with checkboxes, restore individual files/folders
  • Restore to original path (fast, same-drive temp → rename)
  • Restore to custom folder
• 🌍 Fully English UI — ready for international use
• 📦 Single portable .exe — no installation needed

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🚀 Getting Started

Requirements

• Windows 10 / 11 (WebView2 is required — pre-installed on Win10 21H1+)
• restic — the backup engine

Install restic

winget install restic

Or download it from https://restic.net and place restic.exe next to ResticBackupManager.exe.

Run

Just double-click ResticBackupManager.exe. No installer, no setup.

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📸 Screenshots

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🔧 Build from source

Prerequisites

• Go 1.21+
• Node.js 18+
• Wails v2

# Install Wails CLI
go install github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/cmd/wails@latest

# Clone and build
git clone https://github.com/NeverBeLazyG/restic-backup-manager.git
cd restic-backup-manager

wails build -platform windows/amd64 -trimpath -ldflags "-s -w"

The output will be at build/bin/ResticBackupManager.exe.

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🏗️ Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Backend	Go + Wails v2
Frontend	React 18 + TypeScript + Vite
Backup engine	restic
Styling	Vanilla CSS (dark glassmorphism theme)

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📄 License

MIT — see LICENSE

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🙏 Credits

• restic — the fantastic backup engine powering this tool
• Wails — Go + Web desktop framework