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Rest Server is a high performance HTTP server that implements restic's REST backend API.

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Indexed issues
45
Avg merge
15d 9h
Merged PRs (30d)
2
Dominant language
Go
License
BSD-2-Clause
Last GitHub push
Jul 22, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 20, 2026
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  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's BSD-2-Clause license.
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  • Correctly-verified htpasswd passwords consistently rejected (401) across bcrypt, SHA-256, MD5, and SHA-1 formats on linux/arm64
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    state: need feedback

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    restic/rest-server#391 · 5 comments ·

  • Support S3 and SFTP as Repository Backends
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    restic/rest-server#390 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • ISO 8601 date format in logfile
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    restic/rest-server#389 ·

  • Too Many Open Files - Causes Container (and Docker host) to Stop Functioning
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    restic/rest-server#384 · 2 comments ·

  • Exit after configurable idle period for servers with limited RAM or are off/suspended when unused
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

    restic/rest-server#383 · 2 comments ·

  • Please specify what max body size the server requires
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

    restic/rest-server#378 · 1 comment ·

  • Missing WWW-Authenticate header in 401 responses
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

    restic/rest-server#376 ·

  • Publish on GHCR
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    restic/rest-server#367 · 2 comments · 6 reactions ·

  • Unit rest-server.socket not found on Ubuntu Server 22.04 vs 24.04
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    restic/rest-server#350 · 1 comment ·

  • Using multiple bind mounts with private repositories enabled
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    restic/rest-server#336 · 1 comment ·

  • CPU Profile
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

    restic/rest-server#333 · 1 comment ·

  • On OpenBSD, rest-server only listens using IPv4/TCPv4
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    restic/rest-server#324 · 1 comment ·

  • Can two rest-server processes serve the same path ?
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

    restic/rest-server#312 · 5 comments ·

  • Prometheus env question - docker (compose)
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    restic/rest-server#310 · 3 comments ·

  • Future of this project?
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    restic/rest-server#309 · 5 comments · 7 reactions ·

  • quota
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    restic/rest-server#305 · 4 comments · 4 reactions ·

  • Support read-only root fs and non-root user
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    restic/rest-server#303 · 3 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • customize log format
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    restic/rest-server#283 ·

  • Build & publish docker images
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    restic/rest-server#258 · 6 comments · 4 reactions ·

  • Additional metric: last snapshot date/timestamp(per repository)
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    restic/rest-server#256 · 5 comments ·

  • Ensure that written data is correctly written
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    restic/rest-server#253 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Prepend log with date/time
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    restic/rest-server#245 ·

  • Base URL flag
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    restic/rest-server#237 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Support X-Forwarded-For in logging when behind a proxy
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    restic/rest-server#233 · 1 comment · 5 reactions ·

  • Add unit tests for listBlobsV2
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    help: wanted

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    restic/rest-server#222 ·

  • Deeper sub-levels option for extremely large repositories
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    restic/rest-server#215 · 3 comments ·

  • add pre+post-backup commands
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    restic/rest-server#200 · 10 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • Retrying an upload can fail in append-only mode
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    restic/rest-server#196 · 4 reactions ·

  • `/metrics` should also provide repository stats
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    restic/rest-server#176 · 3 comments · 12 reactions ·

  • Don't ignore `--private-repos` when `--no-auth` is used
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    restic/rest-server#174 · 10 comments ·

  • use s3 like backend exclude rest-server like restic client
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    restic/rest-server#165 · 6 comments ·

  • Fill/sync restic REST server from local repository
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    restic/rest-server#150 · 7 comments ·

  • Add a /health endpoint which does not require authentication
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    restic/rest-server#147 · 7 comments · 11 reactions ·

  • Add a configuration file
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    restic/rest-server#139 · 4 comments · 12 reactions ·

  • Make /metrics available without authentication or give the option for metrics-only usernames
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    restic/rest-server#116 · 2 comments ·

  • Digest HTTP authentication
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    restic/rest-server#111 · 2 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • Add write-only mode
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

    restic/rest-server#110 · 4 comments · 9 reactions ·

  • TLS hot reload
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    type: feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    restic/rest-server#94 · 5 comments · 5 reactions ·

  • Handle SIGHUP
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    • Is something wrong?
    help: wanted

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    restic/rest-server#80 · 4 comments ·

  • Set --append-only and --max-size per user
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    restic/rest-server#74 · 8 comments · 14 reactions ·

  • TLS Client Authentication
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    • Is something wrong?
    type: feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    restic/rest-server#73 · 2 comments · 14 reactions ·

  • SELinux Issues
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    • Is something wrong?
    help: wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    restic/rest-server#71 · 2 comments ·

  • Support LDAP Authentication
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    • Is something wrong?
    type: feature request

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    restic/rest-server#70 · 9 comments · 5 reactions ·

  • Build separate binaries for various arm & mips architectures
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    restic/rest-server#47 · 2 comments ·

  • rest-server log POST request size is zero
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    state: need feedback type: feature enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    restic/rest-server#45 · 4 comments ·

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