Restic-Browser: A cross-platform GUI to browse restic repositories

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rclone is looking for config file in:

rclone config file

and probably not finding there what is needed.

I suggest you stick with files default locations if not comfortable with changing it - or set rclone config location env variable - check on rclone website its exact name. It is something like RCLONE_CONFIG_FILE

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sorry for asking…

i realize now i downloaded beta version…
i’m trying now with 2.6 and works fine

thank you again

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Thank you so much for creating Restic-Browser!

I just gave it a try and it works like a charm.

What I would like to add:
I had a working restic setup on windows with a repository to onedrive over rclone. All necessary files (restic.exe, rclone.exe, password-file, my scripts) are located at c:\tools.
So I placed Restic-Browser.exe also there and created a batch file to start it. At the beginning I could not make it work, Restic-Browser would always complain about something like "c:" does not exist. I got it workind then with slashes instead of backslashes

SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\Tools
Restic-Browser.exe -r "rclone:onedrive:/restic-backup" --password-file "C:/Tools/pwd.txt" --rclone "C:/Tools/rclone.exe"
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On Kubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, I played around a little bit with v0.3.0:

$ restic-browser --version

** (restic-browser:132952): WARNING **: 18:04:09.438: webkit_settings_set_enable_offline_web_application_cache is deprecated and does nothing.
Restic-Browser v0.3.0:

(As an aside, a timestamp without a date is, eventually, useless.)

I mostly liked what I saw. I Very Much liked the readonly behaviour! :+1:

The main thing which bothered me is that I could not find any way to “Close” a REPO within the GUI. I could "Open” a REPO using the GUI, but once Opened, it stayed Open; I was unable to find any way of un-Openning a REPO. Being readonly, this (presumably) would migrate any confusions/mistakes (in the case of multiple opened repos), but it nonetheless made me Very Nervous: I did not feel in full control of what the tool might be doing, now or in some future version.

Edit: Improved typography for easier reading.

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Hi,

I tried it works like a charm on local repos.
BUT sftp don’t seems to working on hetzner storagebox or maybe I’m doing wrong.

Can somebody help me figuring out or what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks.

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The weird thing is, I also use restic browser with repos on Hetzner StorageBox over sftp. SSH Auth goes over ssh config and id_xxx private key in the background for both. The weird thing is, the configuration is the same for both, for one it works without problems, for the other one, I get

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I double checked the sftp URLS multiple times and also the directory content looks fine in both cases and the top-level content is identical.

Also restic check etc. doesn’t show any issues with the repo. Both repos are v2.

UPDATE: solved it. Was a really stupid error. There was a space at the end of the sftp://… URL :rofl: maybe the GUI could check that or just trim the URL

So to sum and and to make restic browser work with sftp:// URLs:

  • in restic browser, omit the leading “sftp:” for the URL. It’s already here when you select type = SFTP
  • make sure you don’t have leading or trailing spaces in the URL :grinning:
  • make sure you can connect without password on the CLI to the repo URL (put the required information, which SSH key to usw etc. in .ssh/config - this works in Linux as well as Windows)