Hello, I’ve been using restic with backblaze for about a year now and for the most part it worked fine. Yesterday all of a sudden it stopped connecting to backblaze. It just hangs. No error produced. root@backup1:~/bin/backup# ./restic -r b2::/backup/ns1 --verbose=3 snapshots signal interrupt rec…

Problem solved. I needed to update list of trusted root certificates. Apparently backblaze changed ssl certificate 2 days ago and restic was unable to establish https connection. Looking in the log it was very apparent saying something like “certificate signed with unknown authority”. Thank you raw…

Restic stopped connecting to backblaze

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764287 October 3, 2021, 9:16am 10

Old root certificates from Let’s Encrypt expired on September 30th. Sounds like your system is still using those old root certificates by default.

Restic hangs with B2 since 2021-10-01