To facilitate remote-initiated backups of servers, files are first rsync’d to a directory on which Restic runs. Then, Restic makes a backup of that directory. Please see the following example:
/home/backups$ mkdir files
/home/backups$ rsync user@target_server:/tmp/file_to_back_up.txt files/
/home/backups$ restic -q -r /tmp/backups_destination backup files/
/home/backups$ restic -r /tmp/backups_destination snapshots
ID Time Host Tags Paths
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a004c953 2022-04-05 20:50:06 backup /home/backups/files/backups_destination
3ca0164e 2022-04-05 20:56:42 backup /home/backups/files/backups_destination
Instead, I would like the output of the previous command to be:
ID Time Host Tags Paths
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a004c953 2022-04-05 20:50:06 backup /file_to_back_up.txt
3ca0164e 2022-04-05 20:56:42 backup /file_to_back_up.txt
This way, I can preserve the path to the file on the remote system and not worry about the garbage (/home/backups/files/). Is this possible?