# Install consul-backinator with Homebrew

Consul backup and restoration application. Version 1.6.6 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:consul-backinator
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install consul-backinator
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:consul-backinator
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.6.6
- **Source summary:** Consul backup and restoration application
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/myENA/consul-backinator>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/myENA/consul-backinator>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27T22:04:03+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- consul-backinator (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.6.6
## 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.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/myENA/consul-backinator>
- <https://github.com/myENA/consul-backinator/releases/tag/v1.0>


## Security Notes

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

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/consul-backinator.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/consul-backinator.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph