In this article I describe how I run restic to backup my systems. I illustrate this with a special use case: backing up files with special permissions.

Backups are great. Automated backups are even better. Self-monitored automated backup are the best. In this article I explain how I set up Healthchecks and Gotify to warn me if a backup failed or did not run.

restic is a backup utility written in Go compatible with many backups solutions. In this article I explore how easy it is to backup anything with restic.