diff --git a/internal/backend/foreground_solaris.go b/internal/backend/foreground_sysv.go
similarity index 95%
rename from internal/backend/foreground_solaris.go
rename to internal/backend/foreground_sysv.go
index 8b963db21..f60e4242e 100644
--- a/internal/backend/foreground_solaris.go
+++ b/internal/backend/foreground_sysv.go
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+// +build aix solaris
+
 package backend
 
 import (
diff --git a/internal/backend/foreground_unix.go b/internal/backend/foreground_unix.go
index fe5b95ffa..eb0002dad 100644
--- a/internal/backend/foreground_unix.go
+++ b/internal/backend/foreground_unix.go
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-// +build !solaris
-// +build !windows
+// +build !aix,!solaris,!windows
 
 package backend
 
diff --git a/internal/restic/node_aix.go b/internal/restic/node_aix.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1e625296b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/restic/node_aix.go
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+// +build aix
+
+package restic
+
+import "syscall"
+
+func (node Node) restoreSymlinkTimestamps(path string, utimes [2]syscall.Timespec) error {
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (node Node) device() int {
+	return int(node.Device)
+}
+
+// AIX has a funny timespec type in syscall, with 32-bit nanoseconds.
+// golang.org/x/sys/unix handles this cleanly, but we're stuck with syscall
+// because os.Stat returns a syscall type in its os.FileInfo.Sys().
+func toTimespec(t syscall.StTimespec_t) syscall.Timespec {
+	return syscall.Timespec{Sec: t.Sec, Nsec: int64(t.Nsec)}
+}
+
+func (s statT) atim() syscall.Timespec { return toTimespec(s.Atim) }
+func (s statT) mtim() syscall.Timespec { return toTimespec(s.Mtim) }
+func (s statT) ctim() syscall.Timespec { return toTimespec(s.Ctim) }
+
+// Getxattr is a no-op on AIX.
+func Getxattr(path, name string) ([]byte, error) {
+	return nil, nil
+}
+
+// Listxattr is a no-op on AIX.
+func Listxattr(path string) ([]string, error) {
+	return nil, nil
+}
+
+// Setxattr is a no-op on AIX.
+func Setxattr(path, name string, data []byte) error {
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/internal/ui/progress/signals_sysv.go b/internal/ui/progress/signals_sysv.go
index 04b8acaf6..933cddde6 100644
--- a/internal/ui/progress/signals_sysv.go
+++ b/internal/ui/progress/signals_sysv.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// +build linux solaris
+// +build aix linux solaris
 
 package progress
 
diff --git a/run_integration_tests.go b/run_integration_tests.go
index 14c3bb471..5b1902b15 100644
--- a/run_integration_tests.go
+++ b/run_integration_tests.go
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ func (env *TravisEnvironment) Prepare() error {
 				"netbsd/386", "netbsd/amd64",
 				"linux/arm", "freebsd/arm",
 				"linux/ppc64le", "solaris/amd64",
+				"aix/ppc64",
 			}
 		} else {
 			env.goxOSArch = []string{runtime.GOOS + "/" + runtime.GOARCH}