restic-browser

A simple, cross-platform restic backup GUI for browsing and restoring restic repositories.

Built with Tauri, based on leaanthony's Restoric PoC.

Older versions of the restic browser were built using Wails2. The latest release based on Wails is v0.2.6.

Download

Prebuilt binaries for Windows, macOS and Linux can be downloaded from the GitHub releases page.

On Windows, restic-browser can also be installed and updated via winget winget install restic-browser

Features

This is not a fullblown restic backup GUI - it only allows you to browse existing repositories!

• Displays contents (snapshots, files) from local and remote restic repositories.
• Dumps selected files or folders (as a zip archive) to a desired location.
• Restores selected files or folders to a desired location.
• Opens selected files by moving them to TEMP, then opens them with your operating system's default programs.

Keyboard Navigation

The UI is navigatable via keyboard shortcuts. To change the focus area, hit Tab + Shift-Tab keys.

Global Shortcuts:

• Control/CMD + O: Open new repository

Snapshot-List

• Arrow keys, Page Up/Down, Home/End: Change selected snapshot

File-List

• Arrow keys, Page Up/Down, Home/End: Change selected file
• o or Enter or Space: Open selected file or folder
• d: Dump selected file or folder as zip file
• r: Restore selected file or folder

Arguments

Usage

Restic-Browser [OPTIONS]

Options

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System Requirements

All platforms

• Install restic and make sure it is included in your $PATH.

  On MacOS, where setting the PATH for desktop applications is a really hard thing to do, the restic executable will also be found if it's in one of the following folders: /usr/local/bin, /opt/local/bin, /opt/homebrew/bin, ~/bin.

Windows:

• Windows 10 or later with WebView2 Runtime

MacOS:

• macOS 10.13 or later

Linux:

• Linux with GLIBC_2.35 or later (e.g. Ubuntu 22.04 or later)
• WebKit2 (install via apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.1 on Ubuntu)
• Try using the Linux appimage from the prebuilt releases, in case libwebkit2gtk-4.1 is not available on your system.

Development

Dependencies

• Follow the Tauri Prerequisites Docs to install a C/C++ toolchain and Rust 1.78 or later for your platform.
• Make sure npm Node 18 LTS or later is installed.
• Install restic and make sure it is included in your $PATH.

Note: installing the tauri CLI via cargo is not necessary. Tauri can be launched through npm (see below).

Front-end and App Development

To work in live development mode with automatic hot-reloading, run npm run tauri dev in the root directory.

Rust Backend Debugging

To debug the Tauri Rust application code, you can use the included startup tasks of vscode. If you press "F5" in vscode, the application will be built in debug mode and then started.

Building Production Packages

To build a redistributable package in production mode, run npm run tauri build in the root directory.

License

MIT license. See LICENSE for the full text.

Contribute

Patches are welcome! Please fork the latest git repository and create a feature branch.