Help configuring restic - rclone - ProtonDrive WITH encrypted configuration

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Hello everyone,

I used restic happily with Proton Drive for some time. However, some months ago I decided to encrypt the configuration for rclone, as I felt more secure. Unfortunately, I did not think of the implications it has with restic.

Disclaimer: did not use restic for a few months now.

The command I previously used was:

restic backup /home/manuel/ --one-file-system --repo rclone:PD:ResticBackup

restic backup /home/manuel/ --one-file-system --repo rclone:PD:ResticBackup
rclone: Enter configuration password:
rclone: password:2025/04/18 10:06:20 ERROR : Couldn’t decrypt configuration, most likely wrong password.
rclone: Enter configuration password:
‘XXXXXXX’ # I used ’ ’ because my password starts with ?
rclone: password:
Fatal: unable to open repository at rclone:PD:ResticBackup: error talking HTTP to rclone: Get “http://localhost/file-17205766766146446417”: context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
[manuel@linny ~]$ ‘XXXXXXX’
bash: ?a(kM0b$5O13i27c: Befehl nicht gefunden…

(process:16936): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 10:11:53.565: g_task_return_error: assertion ‘error != NULL’ failed

(process:16936): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 10:11:53.565: GTask 0x55b8a8fd0840 (source object: 0x55b8a8fbd440, source tag: 0x7f227dbcc8c0) finalized without ever returning (using g_task_return_*()). This potentially indicates a bug in the program.

Could anyone help me getting restic up and running again?

Some facts:
OS: Linux Fedora 41
Restic version: restic 0.17.3 compiled with go1.23.2 on linux/amd64

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Remove rclone config encryption or provide password using environment variable.

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Thank you for your answer. Could you help me out how to provide the password using an environment variable? Not sure about this…

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It looks like it might be RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS

If that doesn’t work, I’d approach this from a slightly different angle.
The error looks (to me) to be rclone-specific, rather than an error message generated by restic.
I’d personally start by checking if you able to use rclone to open the remote directly (without using restic).

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Thank you! By using ChatGPT I solved the issue!

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Glad to hear it!

Would you mind sharing what the solution was, for future people that might find this thread after encountering the same (or a similar) issue?

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Basically, before I execute the restic backup command I execute (on Linux) export RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS=“your_password”` in order to supply the password via the environment variable :slight_smile:

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Thanks for sharing!

Also, full credit to @kapitainsky for suggesting the environment variable idea in the first place :slight_smile:

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