Running restic commands as root

[dsissitka]

sudo doesn’t preserve the environment by default:

[root@pc ~]# export FOO=bar
[root@pc ~]# sudo env | grep FOO
[root@pc ~]# sudo --preserve-env env | grep FOO
FOO=bar
[root@pc ~]#

I wouldn’t use --preserve-env though. You might like the wrapper approach:

Can you assign a name to a repository?

You might like the wrapper approach. My hosts have restic-b2/restic-s3s for their B2/S3 repos. [david@pc ~]$ sudo cat /usr/local/bin/restic-s3 #!/usr/bin/bash export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='...' export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='...' export RESTIC_PASSWORD='...' export RESTIC_REPOSITORY='s3:https://s3.amazons3.com/...' exec restic "$@" [david@pc ~]$