Cybee - Frequently asked questions - FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions - What is Restic and why did Cybee choose it?

What is Restic and why did Cybee choose it?

Restic is an open-source backup engine renowned for its reliability, source-side deduplication and native client-side encryption. Cybee chose it for its transparency — documented repository format, auditable code, no black box — and industrializes it with what raw Restic lacks: a multi-platform agent, a central orchestrator and a supervision console. Bonus: because repositories stay in the standard Restic format, reversibility is built in.

Restic is an open-source backup engine with a worldwide reputation for reliability.

 

Source-side deduplication, native client-side encryption, a publicly documented repository format: it has become the reference engine for engineers who take backup seriously.

 

Cybee chose Restic for its transparency — auditable code, no black box, a repository format anyone can verify — and industrializes it with what raw Restic lacks in the enterprise: a deployment-ready agent for Windows and Linux, a central orchestrator managing bandwidth, priorities and backup windows, and a supervision console with reports and alerts.

 

The choice has a structural bonus: because Cybee repositories remain standard Restic repositories, your backups stay restorable with the free open-source tools, without Cybee. Choosing an open engine is choosing no vendor lock-in.