Episode 870 transcript

FLOSS-870 Jonathan: This week I talked with Alexander Neumann about Restic, the backup program written in Go that runs everywhere and most importantly will restore your backups. That's important. This is Floss Weekly, episode 870, recorded Tuesday, June the 9th, open source gardening It's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about free, libre, and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett. Back after a break, after a respite, longer away than we really wanted to be because there was sickness in my family, that I had to travel all over the world. I've been to London, I've been all over the place, but we're back. And we've got a show for you, and we've got something really interesting. We're talking to Alexander Neumann about Restic. And I know that is a backup solution, and I know that it's not written in Rust or C. It's written in yet another interesting language, in Go, I think. And I've got questions. Like, why did we need yet another backup engine? What's wrong with the ones that are out there? And why should somebody use Restic? How does someone use Restic? I have questions, and I bet we have answers, 'cause we have Alexander right here. Welcome to the show, sir.…