I do not use iCloud backup for my iPhone. Instead, I do local encrypted backup, more or less regularly. I wanted to browse and find something from one of these backup.

Did you know, that there is no native way on macOS to browse and restore something from your encrypted iPhone backup? I didn’t.

I use restic as my backup solution, and I haven’t had any problem so far, but recently one of my health checks suddenly stopped working, telling me that something is wrong with my backup. On the other side, restic has done its job, and everything works fine, so what was the problem?

In this article, I would like to show you how to prepare the script that will back up your important files to the cloud storage using a tool called restic. Even though the article is specific for macOS and Backblaze B2, you can use some techniques for creating a similar script for Linux systems.