Repository fd5c6a11 opened successfully, password is correctĬreated new cache in /home/administrator/.cache/resticĮxample Output. To backup the /usr/local directory restic -r b2:restic-west02 backup /usr/local Losing your password means that your data isīefore we run any Restic commands we need to load the environment variables with this command: source /etc/restic-env Please note that knowledge of your password is required to access t he repository. Initialize the repository (repo) source ~/restic-envĬreated restic repository fd5c6a1116 at b2:restic-west02 Then /etc/restic-password could contain 1 line with the password the restic files so only root or a user you create can see the files chown root:root /etc/restic-env This will eliminate the need to pass every parameter each time we run restic. To simplify the use of restic, it’s best to d efine the restic environment variables you will need in a file, such as /etc/restic-env. On Linux s3fuse works just as well as regular fuse, but has components in it to allow you to mount cloud storage buckets compatible with S3, like Backblaze B2.Īfter installation, you can make sure restic is on the latest version by running this command: restic self-update Configuring Restic On Mac, use OSXFuse 3.10.6 if you're running Catalina (10.15), otherwise, you can use the current version of OSXFuse (now called MacFuse) if you are on BigSur. Note about fuse: fuse is needed to be able to mount the snapshot backups, which is one of the restore options. Ubuntu/Debian sudo apt install restic fuse Redhat/CentOS sudo yum install restic fuse This article will focus on the Linux and Mac versions. While Restic is available on Windows, some features are not available.

Restic can be installed from source code or binaries which can be downloaded from GitHub, or installed using the a local package manager on most operating systems. One restic repository can be used to contain the snapshots from one host, or multiple, as the host information is stored in the snapshot index also. All this while taking minimal storage space. It uses snapshots, block-level deduplication, along with complex indexing to allow for quick restores. Restic is an open-source backup tool that works with local storage, NAS devices, or cloud storage (Backblaze B2).

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