Debian systemd errors

Getting Help
1

Greetings,

I wanted to use for my backup part the rest-server , all good so far until I reached to the systemd service file.

Unit]
Description= Restic Server
After=syslog.target
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=www-data
Group=www-data
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rest-server
–path /mnt/backup
–private-repos
–append-only
–prometheus
–log /var/log/restic-server/sessions.log
–tls
–tls-cert /path to cert
–tls-key /path to key
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
StartLimitInterval=0

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

If I run the ExecStart separate in the shell it works perfectly but via the service exiting with error.

I get this error

systemctl status rest-server.service
● rest-server.service - Restic Server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rest-server.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2020-02-07 22:18:40 EET; 4s ago
Process: 19803 ExecStart=/usr/bin/rest-server --path /mnt/backup --private-repos --append-only --prometheus --log /v
Main PID: 19803 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Feb 07 22:18:40 b1 systemd[1]: rest-server.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

systemd[1]: rest-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
systemd[1]: rest-server.service: Unit entered failed state.
systemd[1]: rest-server.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

Any idea where I did wrong and how to get it right ?

I did saw that some used as server Rclone so no idea what to choose here .

Thanks in advance .

2

Are both /mnt/backup and /var/log/restic-server/sessions.log owned by www-data?

3

Apparently if I change the user and Group as root it works perfectly

/mnt/backup is a nfs mount so I’ll have to change the ownership I guess in order to have it as www-data

Thanks.