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ResticDroid
Scheduled, encrypted backups with restic
io.github.jayxt.resticdroid
About ResticDroid
ResticDroid backs your phone up with restic, the open-source backup program, to
storage you control: Backblaze B2, S3-compatible object storage, a REST server,
or a folder on an SD card. Everything is encrypted and deduplicated on
the device before it is sent, so the storage provider only ever holds
ciphertext.
The restic binary is compiled from source as part of the F-Droid build and runs
as a child process. The snapshots it writes are ordinary restic snapshots: you
can open them with restic on a desktop, and nothing about them depends on this
app. If ResticDroid disappears tomorrow, your backups do not become unreadable.
<b>Backup profiles</b>
A profile says what to back up, where to send it, and when. Start from one of
the ready-made sets — photos and media, documents and downloads, installed apps,
or all of shared storage — and adjust it.
<b>Conditions for scheduled runs</b>
Only while charging. Only on an unmetered network. Only on Wi-Fi networks you
name. Only above a battery level you choose. These become system constraints, so
the phone is not woken up to discover it cannot run.
<b>Repositories</b>
Backblaze B2, S3 and S3-compatible services, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud
Storage, OpenStack Swift, a restic REST server, or a local folder. Create a new
repository from the app, or point it at one that already exists.
SFTP and rclone are not offered: restic implements those by running the "ssh"
and "rclone" programs, which Android does not have. Use a REST server or an
S3-compatible gateway instead.
<b>Security</b>
Repository passwords and API keys live in the Android keystore, hardware-backed
on devices that have a secure element, and never appear in the configuration
files. Backups and restores that you start yourself can be gated behind your
fingerprint, or the repository password. Scheduled runs are not prompted, because a backup
that waits for a fingerprint at 3am is a backup that does not happen.
<b>Configuration you can read</b>
Everything