Simple and ugly Bash script that creates a restic repository and creates hourly snapshots for a whole calendar year. This is for the ones who want to play around with restic forget policies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

restic-testing-repository.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Creating a testing repository
echo "Creating a restic testing repository at ~/restic-testing-repo"

export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="$(echo $HOME)/restic-testing-repo"
export RESTIC_PASSWORD='foo'

# Change the file or folder you want to backup here
backup="$(echo $HOME)/Desktop"

# Initializing the repo
# The additional argument is for restic build with additional debug capabilities. See https://forum.restic.net/t/script-for-creating-a-test-repository/312/2
# If this command fails for you, you didn't build restic yourself with the debug argument. 
# This argument below heavily reduces the amount of time when making this testing repository.
# Be aware of the warning!
restic init --insecure-kdf
echo "WARNING: do not use repositories created this way in any production setting!"

echo ""
echo ""
echo "Starting to back up $backup in 8 seconds..."
sleep 8

i=1
months=1
while [[ $months -lt 13 ]]; do
	days=1
	while [[ $days -lt 32 ]]; do
		hour=0
		while [[ $hour -lt 24 ]];do
			if [[ $months -lt 10 ]]; then
				if [[ $days -lt 10 ]]; then
					if [[ $hour -lt 10 ]];then
						restic backup -q "$backup" --time "2017-0$months-0$days 0$hour:00:00" 2>/dev/null &
						((i++))
						#echo "2017-0$months-0$days 0$hour:00:00"
						# This float resembles 1% of 8929 which is the sum of all executed times of the command above.
						# This does not represent the actual snapshots taken. Days that are not in the calendar will be skiped by restic but won't be detected in this script.
						while [[ -e /proc/$! ]]; do
							echo XXX
							echo $i | awk '{ printf "%.0f\n", $1*0.01119946242580356142905140553253 }'
							echo "This will take a while! We're now @ $(ps aux | grep [r]estic| awk {'printf ("%s %s", $16, $17)'})"
							echo XXX
						done
					else
						restic backup -q "$backup" --time "2017-0$months-0$days $hour:00:00"  2>/dev/null &
						((i++))
						#echo "2017-0$months-0$days $hour:00:00"
						while [[ -e /proc/$! ]]; do
							echo XXX
							echo $i | awk '{ printf "%.0f\n", $1*0.01119946242580356142905140553253 }'
							echo "This will take a while! We're now @ $(ps aux | grep [r]estic| awk {'printf ("%s %s", $16, $17)'})"
							echo XXX
						done
					fi
				else
					if [[ $hour -lt 10 ]];then
						restic backup -q "$backup" --time "2017-0$months-$days 0$hour:00:00"  2>/dev/null &
						((i++))
						#echo "2017-0$months-$days 0$hour:00:00"
						while [[ -e /proc/$! ]]; do
							echo XXX
							echo $i | awk '{ printf "%.0f\n", $1*0.01119946242580356142905140553253 }'
							echo "This will take a while! We're now @ $(ps aux | grep [r]estic| awk {'printf ("%s %s", $16, $17)'})"
							echo XXX
						done
					else
						restic backup -q "$backup" --time "2017-0$months-$days $hour:00:00"  2>/dev/null &
						((i++))
						#echo "2017-0$months-$days $hour:00:00"
						while [[ -e /proc/$! ]]; do
							echo XXX
							echo $i | awk '{ printf "%.0f\n", $1*0.01119946242580356142905140553253 }'
							echo "This will take a while! We're now @ $(ps aux | grep [r]estic| awk {'printf ("%s %s", $16, $17)'})"
							echo XXX
						done
					fi
				fi
			else 
				if [[ $days -lt 10 ]]; then
					if [[ $hour -lt 10 ]];then
						restic backup -q "$backup" --time "2017-$months-0$days 0$hour:00:00"  2>/dev/null &
						((i++))
						#echo "2017-$months-0$days 0$hour:00:00"
						while [[ -e /proc/$! ]]; do
							echo XXX
							echo $i | awk '{ printf "%.0f\n", $1*0.01119946242580356142905140553253 }'
							echo "This will take a while! We're now @ $(ps aux | grep [r]estic| awk {'printf ("%s %s", $16, $17)'})"
							echo XXX
						done
					else
						restic backup -q "$backup" --time "2017-$months-0$days $hour:00:00"  2>/dev/null &
						((i++))
						#echo "2017-$months-0$days $hour:00:00"
						while [[ -e /proc/$! ]]; do
							echo XXX
							echo $i | awk '{ printf "%.0f\n", $1*0.01119946242580356142905140553253 }'
							echo "This will take a while! We're now @ $(ps aux | grep [r]estic| awk {'printf ("%s %s", $16, $17)'})"
							echo XXX
						done
					fi
				else
					if [[ $hour -lt 10 ]];then
						restic backup -q "$backup" --time "2017-$months-$days 0$hour:00:00"  2>/dev/null &
						((i++))
						#echo "2017-$months-$days 0$hour:00:00"
						while [[ -e /proc/$! ]]; do
							echo XXX
							echo $i | awk '{ printf "%.0f\n", $1*0.01119946242580356142905140553253 }'
							echo "This will take a while! We're now @ $(ps aux | grep [r]estic| awk {'printf ("%s %s", $16, $17)'})"
							echo XXX
						done
					else
						restic backup -q "$backup" --time "2017-$months-$days $hour:00:00"  2>/dev/null &
						((i++))
						#echo "2017-$months-$days $hour:00:00"
						while [[ -e /proc/$! ]]; do
							echo XXX
							echo $i | awk '{ printf "%.0f\n", $1*0.01119946242580356142905140553253 }'
							echo "This will take a while! We're now @ $(ps aux | grep [r]estic| awk {'printf ("%s %s", $16, $17)'})"
							echo XXX
						done
					fi
				fi
			fi
		((hour++))
		done
	((days++))
	done
((months++))
done | whiptail --title 'Creating hourly snapshots for each day of the year...' --gauge "Please be patient..." 6 65 0
exit 0