Repository file example

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Hi !

I am running restic in a docker container and want to create repositories without human input (no shell will be accessible, the docker container will run on its own).
From the docs, there is a --respository-file and --password-file flag, but there is no example of how those files should look like and what parameters should be inside.

Could someone provide an example of those ?

Thanks in advance !

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Both files contain only respective parameters values. There is no special format or structure required. Simple text files with one line is what is needed.

--password-file file   file to read the repository password from

So if your password is mySecretPassword this is what this file should contain

--repository-file file  file to read the repository location from

If your repository is s3:s3.amazonaws.com/bucket_name this is what you should put there. The same value as you would use in command line as value of -r, --repo flag

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