Simple restic + rclone on OneDrive? (Fatal: unable to open config file: <config/> does not exist)

Getting Help
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I have a working restic repo that I migrated to OneDrive via rclone sync.
I try to push new backups to it via the rclone link to restic but I get the error bellow.

Any ideas?
Thanks

dae@darkmind /m/y> rclone lsd OneDrive:files/ResData/P1Back
-1 2021-05-27 16:26:20 256 data
-1 2021-05-27 16:24:45 143 index
-1 2021-05-27 16:24:34 1 keys
-1 2021-05-27 16:24:35 18 snapshots
dae@darkmind /m/y> restic -r rclone:OneDrive:files/ResData/P1Back snapshots
Fatal: unable to open config file: does not exist
Is there a repository at the following location?
rclone:OneDrive:files/ResData/P1Back
dae@darkmind ~> ls -l ~/.config/rclone/
total 4
-rw------- 1 dae dae 3727 Jul 30 09:27 rclone.conf

2

The repository is supposed to contain a file called config (in P1Back). If you still have a copy of the file just upload it manually to the OneDrive folder.

3

Hi,

it does. I double checked and run rclone sync again from the original restic repo.

dae@darkmind ~> rclone ls OneDrive:files/ResData/P1Back                                                                                                      
      155 config
      454 keys/7b9xxxxxxxf0
      346 snapshots/196d7da8xxxxxx51bd
      260 snapshots/1e316eexxxxxa67f13ff54
      338 snapshots/468xxxxxcdd13fe

I also tried to run this:

restic -o rclone.program=“/bin/rclone” -o rclone.args=“serve restic --stdio --bwlimit 1800k --verbose” -r rclone:OneDrive:files/ResData/P1Back snapshots

no luck.

4

Does specifying the path to the rclone config file using the rclone option --config help?
What does rclone print when you add the option -vv (twice verbose)?

5 
@darkmind ~ [1]> restic -o rclone.program="/bin/rclone" -o rclone.args="serve restic --stdio --bwlimit 1800k -vv --config=/home/dae/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" -r rclone:OneDrive:files/ResData/P1Back snapshots
rclone: 2021/07/30 23:33:02 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.50.2" starting with parameters ["/bin/rclone" "serve" "restic" "--stdio" "--bwlimit" "1800k" "-vv" "--config=/home/dae/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" "OneDrive:files/ResData/P1Back"]
rclone: 2021/07/30 23:33:02 DEBUG : Using config file from "/home/dae/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
rclone: 2021/07/30 23:33:02 INFO  : Starting bandwidth limiter at 1.758MBytes/s
rclone: 2021/07/30 23:33:02 DEBUG : OneDrive: Loaded invalid token from config file - ignoring
rclone: 2021/07/30 23:33:02 DEBUG : OneDrive: Saved new token in config file
rclone: 2021/07/30 23:33:03 DEBUG : One drive root 'files/ResData/P1Back': GET /file-5xxxxxxxxx10
rclone: 2021/07/30 23:33:03 DEBUG : file-5xxxxxxxxx0: GET request error: object not found
rclone: 2021/07/30 23:33:03 DEBUG : One drive root 'files/ResData/P1Back': HEAD /config
rclone: 2021/07/30 23:33:04 DEBUG : config: HEAD request error: object not found
Fatal: unable to open config file: <config/> does not exist
Is there a repository at the following location?
rclone:OneDrive:files/ResData/P1Back
6

does this debug output uncovers anything? I haven’t found a solution still.

7

I don’t see anything obvious in that debug log. Could you try to let restic create a new repository at lets say rclone:OneDrive:files/ResData/P1Back2 and then check whether that looks any different to the migrated backup?

8

So four years later, I am having the same issue. I migrated the repo to a new mega account, and I see this error. The config file is there, but restic says the following:

open repository
Fatal: repository does not exist: unable to open config file: does not exist
Is there a repository at the following location?

How to proceeded ? My apologies for reviving a four year thread. Thanks.

9

@John how exactly do you connect restic to the repository? Also via rclone, or not? Please provide the complete command and the result.

p.s. you use Mega storage and not OneDrive, the current title is confusing (I clicked on it since I also use OneDrive on windows). Maybe better to have opened a new thread for this question/issue.

10

Hi! Sorry, I have not logged in after I had the issue. I do not remember how I solved it either. Just wanted to say thank you for helping. Happy New Year!