How to install restic

Restic is a developer utility. Development happens publicly, and releases are published by the project maintainers.

About the project

Restic is developer utility. The maintainers own the project, choose releases, and publish their own documentation. This page records a few things worth knowing before you begin.

The maintainers own the project. They choose release timing, publish announcements, and write the documentation themselves. Nothing about that process is controlled from here.

Typical distribution routes

Projects of this kind are usually reached through the operating system's package index, through a language-specific registry, or by building the published source tree. Which route applies depends on the platform and on the maintainers' own guidance.

Before you start

It is worth checking which platforms the current release targets. Support windows differ, and the newest version is not always the one that fits an older machine.

Afterwards

Most surprises here come down to path ordering or to two copies being present at once. Checking which one resolves first usually explains the difference.

What this site is

PathManual keeps reading notes about projects like this one. Nothing is stored or re-publish from this domain.