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Install consul-backinator with Homebrew

Consul backup and restoration application. Version 1.6.6 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

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Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install consul-backinator

local Homebrew formula metadata

overview

Package summary

Consul backup and restoration application

Commands and aliases

  • consul-backinator

history

Project history and usage

consul-backinator is a Go utility for backing up and restoring Consul data, especially KV pairs, ACL tokens, and prepared queries. It is an operations-side companion to Consul rather than a HashiCorp core project.

Project history

The upstream README describes consul-backinator as a flexible Consul KV backup and restore tool written in Go using the official Consul API. Its first tagged GitHub release is labeled v1.0 and was published in June 2016.

The tool grew around practical backup concerns: gzip-compressed JSON payloads, AES-256 encryption, HMAC-SHA256 validation, path transformation, S3 support, Docker images, Nomad usage, ACL backup, and prepared-query backup.

Adoption history

Adoption appears niche and ops-focused. The README documents Homebrew installation, go get, source builds, Docker Hub images, and Nomad job usage, while the input package metadata lists only Homebrew among package managers.

How it is used

Operators use the backup, restore, and dump subcommands. The README documents Consul connection settings through flags and environment variables, optional S3 URIs, encryption keys, signatures, ACL files, prepared queries, and destructive restore safeguards.

Why package nerds care

consul-backinator is significant as a package because it fills a gap around Consul disaster recovery workflows. It also shows the 2010s pattern of shipping a Go ops tool simultaneously as a single binary, Homebrew formula, Docker image, and Nomad job.

Timeline

  • 2016: GitHub release v1.0 is tagged as the first tagged release.
  • 2016: README examples show backup output dated May 2016 and document Homebrew, Go, Docker, and Nomad installation paths.

Related projects

  • Consul is the backing service.
  • The README credits HashiCorp's Consul daemon, Consul API, and Go package, and mentions go-discover for cloud node discovery.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:backup

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 13 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
consul-backinatorcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version1.6.6
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv1.6.6

https://github.com/myENA/consul-backinator

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:consul-backinator
Version1.6.6
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/consul-backinator
Homepagehttps://github.com/myENA/consul-backinator
Repositoryhttps://github.com/myENA/consul-backinator
Upstream docshttps://github.com/myENA/consul-backinator#readme
LicenseMPL-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/myENA/consul-backinator/archive/refs/tags/v1.6.6.tar.gz
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameconsul-backinator
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • consul-templateShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure, consul.
  • s3cmdShares av.db curated category or tags: backup, cli, cloud-infrastructure.
  • veleroShares av.db curated category or tags: backup, cli, cloud-infrastructure.
  • actions-batchShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure.
  • aiacShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure.
  • aiven-clientShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, cloud-infrastructure.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment