Backups that keep up with your PC.

resticpal turns the trusted restic engine into a quiet, friendly Windows backup experience — without hiding the formats or repositories that make restic dependable.

Download for Windows Source on GitHub

Windows 10/11 64-bit · signed installer · Apache-2.0

Why resticpal

Made for sleeping laptopsBackups catch up after wake, observe a grace period, and hold a bounded Windows wake lock while work is in progress.
Protection without an open appA machine-wide service keeps working when the settings window is closed, or when nobody is signed in.
A calm Windows experienceNative WinUI setup, a low-resource tray process, clear status, cancellation, and bounded history.
Your repository, your choiceLocal disks, network shares, S3-compatible storage, REST servers, and the other backends restic supports.
Ransomware-consciousAppend-only clients can back up but cannot run retention, prune, rewrite, migration, destructive repair, or key removal.
One PC, or a fleetLocal configuration, plain manifest distribution, and signed server enrollment are distinct modes — not an all-or-nothing cloud dependency.

See it in action

The resticpal backup sources page, with folder controls and restic exclusion patterns — Choose folders across local Windows profiles, add custom paths, and keep exclusions readable.

The resticpal repository page, with backend, append-only, credential and advanced option controls — Connect a local or remote repository, configure S3-compatible storage, and choose standard or append-only maintenance explicitly.

Nothing proprietary underneath

resticpal drives the real restic binary against a standard restic repository. Your snapshots stay readable by restic itself — from any machine, with or without resticpal installed. There is no custom format to be locked into, and no service of ours between you and your data.