Restic Scheduler

Native macOS menu bar app heavily inspired by Apple’s Time Machine to perform scheduled backups using restic.

Features

  • Built-in restic binary (but using a custom one is also possible)
  • Back up every hour, day or week
  • SFTP, rest or local repository types
  • List of included/excluded files/folders
  • Custom command-line arguments

Screenshots

Backing Up Status General Restic Advanced

Installation

macOS 13 or higher is required.

Download the latest archive, unzip it and move the app to Applications folder.

Building

  1. Download a restic binary for macOS and place the extracted binary named restic at the project folder

  2. If you don’t need a code signing, run make disable-code-signing

  3. Otherwise create a Config.xcconfig file at the project folder with the following content:

    CODE_SIGN_STYLE = Automatic
DEVELOPMENT_TEAM = 12ABCDE45F
MARKETING_VERSION = 0.0.0
APP_BUNDLE_ID = ru.makinen.ResticScheduler
APP_RESTIC_BINARY = restic

    Note: set DEVELOPMENT_TEAM to your Development Team ID.

  4. Open ResticScheduler.xcodeproj in Xcode and build the project

  5. Or run make to build from the command-line

License

MIT

GitHub

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