Openstack Swift backup with restic

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Hi,

is it possible to backup openstack swift containers/objects/data with restic?
Like the source is openstack swift and target is openstack swift.
And restic is the inbetween server.

I would like to protect files against users and corruption etc… If file is accidentally changed or deleted, I can do rollback on swift object store

Thank you very much.

2

Not really, no. You can’t use the backends in restic or rclone as the source of what you’re backing up. Restic needs to be able to read it as a general filesystem, so you’d have to somehow mount the Swift storage so it’s represented as files. There might be FUSE filesystems or similar to do that though, I guess?

3

thank you.

…reading about rclone. I think it has possibility to sync files and directories to and from openstack swift.
“Syncing between cloud providers is also possible”

Cheers.

4

Absolutely, you can definitely use rclone for that, it’s the perfect tool for it. It will not be the same thing as using restic though because it’s not a backup tool but a sync tool. But if that floats your boat… :wink:

5

have you tried awscli?
can this work for openstack swift to backup one container to another container…

cheers

6

I haven’t. I tried to use a Swift storage some years ago but it was too buggy with the provider I used, so there was no way I could do that. I ended up using SFTP and later moving to REST-server for my restic backup needs.

Maybe you can just try it and see if it works?

7

okay.

do you use RESTserver for openstack swift backups?

cheers.

8

No, I send my backups to a REST-server, it has nothing to do with Swift.

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ok. thank you very much.

cheers.