Simple, automated restic backups through configuration files.
A configuration file is automatically generated during the first run, if one isn't present.
An example configuration file looks like this:
config = {
"restic-repo": "path/to/restic/backup/repository",
"restic-password-file": "configuration/restic-password.txt",
"backup-file": "configuration/paths-to-backup.txt",
"exclude-file": "configuration/paths-to-exclude.txt",
"backup-frequency": 21600,
"keep-backups": -1,
"backup-on-start": true,
"last-backed-up": 1234567890
}
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restic-repo: The path the restic repository resides in. If one doesn't exist, initialize one. -
restic-password-file: The path to the text file containing the passoword to your restic repository. -
backup-file: Text file containing the paths that will be backed up, one per line. -
exclude-file: Text file containing the paths that will be excluded from the backup, one per line. -
backup-frequency: How often you want to run the backup, in seconds. -
keep-backups: How long to keep the backups for. See restic's documentation for--keep-within duration. Set to -1 to never remove backups. -
backup-on-start: Set this to true if you want the script to run a backup every time it's started. -
last-backed-up: Keeps track of when the last backup was performed, so a backup won't be started if you restart the script immediately after a backup.
You should run the program once in the foreground to create a configuration: this can be done with python3 auto-restic.py.
The simplest way to run the script in the background is either through screen on nohup. With nohup, running the program is as simple as nohup python3 auto-restic.py &.