Restic Systemd Files

This repository contains configurations files I use to backup my home directory with Restic to a remote server over SFTP. Backups are made every hour.

The systemd unit file and a systemd timer should be placed in /etc/systemd/use

• restic-backup.service
• restic-backup.timer

The restic configuration, exclude and password file should be placed in $HOME/.config

• restic-backup.conf
• restic-exclude.txt
• restic-password.txt

Usage

• Create user restic on your server and make sure you can login seamlessly with a SSH Key.

• Install Restic.

• Create a restic repository on your server.

    restic -r sftp:REMOTE-SERVER.com:/home/restic backup init
  

• Save the password in $HOME/.config/restic-password.txt.

• Add files and directories you want to ignore isn $HOME/.config/restic-exclude.txt.

• Reload systemd.

    systemctl --user daemon-reload
  

ZshRC/BashRC alias

I have created two aliases in my zshrc file to make browsing the backups easier.

• backup-snapshots - lists the restic snapshots.
• backup-mount - mounts the snapshots in /mnt/restic-backup.

alias backup-snapshots='restic -r sftp:REMOTE-SERVER.COM:/home/restic/backup snapshots --password-file=/home/USER/.config/restic-password.txt'

alias backup-mount='sudo chmod 777 /mnt/framework-backup && restic -r sftp:REMOTE-SERVER.COM:/home/restic/backup mount /mnt/restic-backup --password-file=/home/USER/.config/resticpassword.txt'