How to access the summary metadata from a snapshot?

zzen · August 10, 2023, 5:23pm

I’d like to access metadata about a past backup (later, after the backup has been created). I found a very promising GitHub commit that seems to imply that exactly that information is stored in every snapshot, in summary substructure. Is there a way to access this data? I can’t find it either in restic stats nor restic cat. Help?

(restic version restic 0.16.0 compiled with go1.20.6 on linux/arm64)

github.com/restic/restic

Print out the backup size when listing snapshots (enhancement)

opened 05:26PM - 10 Dec 16 UTC

yhafri

type: feature enhancement category: user interface category: stats

## Output of `restic version` Any. ## Expected behavior Adding an extra… column to list the size of the backup (in bytes) can be very useful. It'll help distinguish between different backups just by checking their size. ``` $ restic snapshots ID Date Host Tags Directory Size -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5b969a0e 2016-12-09 15:10:32 localhost myfile 390865 ``` ## Actual behavior ``` $ restic snapshots ID Date Host Tags Directory ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5b969a0e 2016-12-09 15:10:32 localhost myfile ```

alexweiss · August 10, 2023, 7:35pm

@zzen As you can see the issue you have been linked is still open for restic. restic so far doesn’t save the summary information within the snapshot - though I hope it gets it also gets implemented within restic some time.

zzen · August 10, 2023, 9:29pm

Doh! Sorry for sloppy reading and thanks @alexweiss… I just saw “I now save in rustic the stats” at the start of the comment and two referenced merged/closed issues at the end of that thread and assumed… Anyway: +1 to that being really useful and welcome addition for monitoring backups.