Restic Installation & Configuration

README.md

Install the pre-compiled Restic binary.

curl --silent --location https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/download/v0.9.4/restic_0.9.4_linux_amd64.bz2 | bzip2 --decompress \
| sudo tee /usr/bin/restic > /dev/null && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/restic

Backup:

source /etc/restic/config && sudo -E restic backup --option b2.connections=10 --exclude-caches --exclude-file /etc/restic/excludes.list /home /etc

Cleanup:

restic forget --prune --host "${HOSTNAME}" --keep-last 3 --keep-hourly 24 --keep-daily 7 --keep-weekly 4 --keep-monthly 12 --keep-yearly 1

config

export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=""
export RESTIC_PASSWORD=""

export B2_ACCOUNT_ID=""
export B2_ACCOUNT_KEY=""

excludes.list

# System Directories
########################################

/bin
/boot
/dev
/media
/mnt
/proc
/run
/snap
/sys
/tmp
/var/lib/docker
/var/log
/var/tmp

# User Files
########################################

/home/*/.cache
/home/*/.composer
/home/*/Downloads
/home/*/.fontconfig
/home/*/.npm
/home/*/.thumbnails
/home/*/.steam
/home/*/snap

# Disk Images
########################################

*.iso
*.qemu
*.qemu2
*.vbox
*.vmdk

# Cache Files
########################################

/**/cache
*.cache

# Development Files
########################################

/**/node_modules
/**/vendor