I have a restic job that is complaining about wrong password or no key found
and I’m looking for how to debug this. What I think I want is a way to tell Restic how to dump out the parameters it’s working with; --verbose
doesn’t, and I don’t see a command that would seem to do it. How do people debug this sort of thing?
I have a systemd job set-up that I’m running on a few servers and my laptop; it consists of an EnvironmentFile and a file of paths in a read-restricted /etc
directory, a timer, and a job that sets the environment from the EnvironmentFile and uses the paths file for the backup list. This exact setup is running well on a number of servers, but on a new server the job prints the wrong password
error. When I set the environment variables by hand and run restic, it’s fine (the init works, as do subsequent operations from the CLI), but the systemd job fails.
Ignore my specific issue for a moment; I am less interested in fixing this one server than I am answering the question: how do I debug restic when it’s running in a different environment, and behaving differently, than when I run it interactively? Maybe I’m running it in docker, for some reason; maybe as a systemd job, or a cron job, or something – how can I tell it to dump out it’s environment to see what it is working with so I can – e.g. – see that it has the wrong repository path or password or whatnot?