Hello,
I am new to restic but i like it so far. Trying to move away from rclone.
What i like about rclone is that I can just browse to my backed up files via filebrowser or use rclone ncdu command to have a GUI inside the shell to manage my files.
I am using resting inside of a Debian VM on my truenas server. I have a lot of NFS shares of my truenas system mounted into the VM (docker is running inside the VM and is using certain truenas datasets for storage).
When I am using restic mount mounting to a folder inside the VM, it works fine. All files are visible. But then i cannot access it via another file browser outside of the VM.
So i tried mounting a snapshot into one of the ZFS shares, which seems to work, no errors or anything, but when i try to access the files, the folder is just empty.
Is there a way mount a snapshot, so i can access it from outside of the VM?
You cannot restic mount “into one of the ZFS shares”, you’re just mounting it “over” the share.
This is not an issue with restic. The empty directory is the expected behavior: the empty directory you see is just the empty folder where you mount the repository.
You can try to mount the repository somewhere else and share that filesystem. I’m not sure you can export a mounted fuse filesystem, but sure you can try. I think it depends: if you want to export it using ftp/sftp/cifs it should work (permissions problem aside). It could be more difficult if you want to export the filesystem using nfs.
Anyway if you like rclone interface you could configure the restic repository in rclone and access it with ndcu.