Hi there,
I’ve been trying restic for a while, as I need to replace my old homemade rsync scripts, and so far it fits all my requirements. Good work!
One thing that came to me straight away is that it involves a lot of typing. I’m using different Azure backends and I had to juggle with different environment variables with different storage accounts.
Another thing I needed is different profiles: I do local backups of the root to a data disk, a backup to another machine locally, then a backup to an azure storage account. Managing different repositories is not the easiest.
For that matter I’ve created a quick python script that can manage profiles. An example is better than a long discussion, and here’s what it can do right now:
- A simple configuration file using a Microsoft Azure backend:
[default]
repository = "azure:restic:/"
password-file = "key"
[default.env]
AZURE_ACCOUNT_NAME = "my_storage_account"
AZURE_ACCOUNT_KEY = "my_super_secret_key"
[default.backup]
exclude-file = "excludes"
exclude-caches = true
one-file-system = true
tag = [ "root" ]
source = [ "/", "/var" ]
- A more complex configuration file showing profile inheritance and two backup profiles using the same repository:
# Global configuration section
[global]
ionice = false # Linux only
ionice-class = 2
ionice-level = 6
nice = 10 # All unix-like
# when no command is specified when invoking resticprofile
default-command = "snapshots"
# initialize a repository if none exist at location
initialize = false
# a group is a profile that will call all profiles one by one
[groups]
# when starting a backup on profile "full-backup", it will run the "root" and "src" backup profiles
full-backup = [ "root", "src" ]
# Default profile when not specified (-n or --name)
# Please note there's no default inheritance from the 'default' profile (you can use the 'inherit' flag if needed)
[default]
repository = "/backup"
password-file = "key"
initialize = false
[default.env]
TMPDIR= "/tmp"
[no-cache]
inherit = "default"
no-cache = true
initialize = false
# New profile named 'root'
[root]
inherit = "default"
initialize = true
# 'backup' command of profile 'root'
[root.backup]
exclude-file = [ "root-excludes", "excludes" ]
exclude-caches = true
one-file-system = false
tag = [ "test", "dev" ]
source = [ "." ]
# retention policy for profile root
[root.retention]
before-backup = false
after-backup = true
keep-last = 3
keep-hourly = 1
keep-daily = 1
keep-weekly = 1
keep-monthly = 1
keep-yearly = 1
keep-within = "3h"
keep-tag = [ "forever" ]
compact = false
prune = false
# New profile named 'src'
[src]
inherit = "default"
initialize = true
# 'backup' command of profile 'src'
[src.backup]
exclude-file = [ "src-excludes", "excludes" ]
exclude-caches = true
one-file-system = false
tag = [ "test", "dev" ]
source = [ "./src" ]
# retention policy for profile src
[src.retention]
before-backup = false
after-backup = true
keep-within = "30d"
compact = false
prune = true
Here are a few examples how to run restic (using the example configuration file)
See all snapshots:
python resticprofile.py
Backup root & src profiles (using full-backup group)
python resticprofile.py --name "full-backup" backup
If you guys would have any use of it, I’m happy to release a package on PyPi. I just need to tidy up some loose ends (mostly error checking: for now the script expects a clean configuration file)
Fred
