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{
"index": "Overview",
"hooks": "Hooks",
"options": "Options",
"cron": "Cronjobs",
"docker": "Docker volumes"
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# Cron
Often it is useful to trigger backups automatically. For this, we can specify a `cron` attribute to each location.
```yaml | .autorestic.yml
locations:
my-location:
from: /data
to: my-backend
cron: '0 3 * * 0' # Every Sunday at 3:00
```
Here is an awesome website with [some examples](https://crontab.guru/examples.html) and an [explorer](https://crontab.guru/).
## Installing the cron
**This has to be done only once, regardless of how many cron jobs you have in your config file.**
To actually enable cron jobs you need something to call `autorestic cron` on a timed schedule.
Note that the schedule has nothing to do with the `cron` attribute in each location.
My advice would be to trigger the command every 5min, but if you have a cronjob that runs only once a week, it's probably enough to schedule it once a day.
### Crontab
Here is an example using crontab, but systemd would do too.
First, open your crontab in edit mode
```bash
crontab -e
```
Then paste this at the bottom of the file and save it. Note that in this specific example the config file is located at one of the default locations (e.g. `~/.autorestic.yml`). If your config is somewhere else you'll need to specify it using the `-c` option.
```bash
# This is required, as it otherwise cannot find restic as a command.
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
# Example running every 5 minutes
*/5 * * * * autorestic -c /path/to/my/.autorestic.yml --ci cron
```
> The `--ci` option is not required, but recommended
To debug a cron job you can use
```bash
*/5 * * * * autorestic -c /path/to/my/.autorestic.yml --ci cron > /tmp/autorestic.log 2>&1
```
Now you can add as many `cron` attributes as you wish in the config file ⏱
> Also note that manually triggered backups with `autorestic backup` will not influence the cron timeline, they are intentionally not linked.

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# Docker
autorestic supports docker volumes directly, without needing them to be mounted to the host filesystem.
```yaml | docker-compose.yml
version: '3.8'
volumes:
data:
name: my-data
services:
api:
image: alpine
volumes:
- data:/foo/bar
```
```yaml | .autorestic.yml
locations:
foo:
from: my-data
type: volume
# ...
```
Now you can backup and restore as always.
```bash
autorestic backup -l hello
```
```bash
autorestic restore -l hello
```
The volume has to exists whenever backing up or restoring.

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# Hooks
If you want to perform some commands before and/or after a backup, you can use hooks.
They consist of a list of commands that will be executed in the same directory as the target `from`.
The following hooks groups are supported, none are required:
- `before`
- `after`
- `failure`
- `success`
```yml | .autorestic.yml
locations:
my-location:
from: /data
to: my-backend
hooks:
before:
- echo "One"
- echo "Two"
- echo "Three"
after:
- echo "Byte"
failure:
- echo "Something went wrong"
success:
- echo "Well done!"
```
## Flowchart
1. `before` hook
2. Run backup
3. `after` hook
4. - `success` hook if no errors were found
- `failure` hook if at least one error was encountered
If the `before` hook encounters errors the backup and `after` hooks will be skipped and only the `failed` hooks will run.
## Environment variables
All hooks are exposed to the `AUTORESTIC_LOCATION` environment variable, which contains the location name.
The `after` and `success` hooks have access to additional information with the following syntax:
```bash
AUTORESTIC_[TYPE]_[I]
AUTORESTIC_[TYPE]_[BACKEND_NAME]
```
Every type of metadata is appended with both the name of the backend associated with and the number in which the backends where executed.
### Available Metadata Types
- `SNAPSHOT_ID`
- `PARENT_SNAPSHOT_ID`
- `FILES_ADDED`
- `FILES_CHANGED`
- `FILES_UNMODIFIED`
- `DIRS_ADDED`
- `DIRS_CHANGED`
- `DIRS_UNMODIFIED`
- `ADDED_SIZE`
- `PROCESSED_FILES`
- `PROCESSED_SIZE`
- `PROCESSED_DURATION`
#### Example
Assuming you have a location `bar` that backs up to a single backend named `foo` you could expect the following env variables:
```bash
AUTORESTIC_LOCATION=bar
AUTORESTIC_FILES_ADDED_0=42
AUTORESTIC_FILES_ADDED_FOO=42
```

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# 🗂 Locations
Locations can be seen as the input to the backup process. Generally this is simply a folder.
The paths can be relative from the config file. A location can have multiple backends, so that the data is secured across multiple servers.
Note: names of locations MUST be lower case!
```yaml | .autorestic.yml
version: 2
locations:
my-location-name:
from: path/to/backup
# Or multiple
# from:
# - /a
# - /b
to:
- name-of-backend
- also-backup-to-this-backend
```
## `from`
This is the source of the location. Can be an `array` for multiple sources.
#### How are paths resolved?
Paths can be absolute or relative. If relative they are resolved relative to the location of the config file. Tilde `~` paths are also supported for home folder resolution.
## `to`
This is either a single backend or an array of backends. The backends have to be configured in the same config file.

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"index": "Overview"
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# Copy
Instead of specifying multiple `to` backends for a given `location` you can also use the `copy` option. Instead of recalculating the backup multiple times, you can copy the freshly copied snapshot from one backend to the other, avoiding recomputation.
###### Example
```yaml | .autorestic.yml
locations:
my-location:
from: /data
to:
- a #Fast
- b #Fast
- c #Slow
```
Becomes
```yaml | .autorestic.yml
locations:
my-location:
from: /data
to:
- a
- b
copy:
a:
- c
```
Instead of backing up to each backend separately, you can choose that the snapshot created to `a` will be copied over to `c`, avoiding heavy computation on `c`.

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# Excluding files
If you want to exclude certain files or folders it done easily by specifying the right flags in the location you desire to filter.
The flags are taken straight from the [restic cli exclude rules](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/040_backup.html#excluding-files) so you can use any flag used there.
```yaml
locations:
my-location:
from: /data
to: my-backend
options:
backup:
exclude:
- '*.nope'
- '*.abc'
exclude-file: .gitignore
```

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# Forget/Prune Policies
Autorestic supports declaring snapshot policies for location to avoid keeping old snapshot around if you don't need them.
This is based on [Restic's snapshots policies](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/060_forget.html#removing-snapshots-according-to-a-policy), and can be enabled for each location as shown below:
> **Note** This is a full example, of course you also can specify only one of them
```yaml | .autorestic.yml
version: 2
locations:
etc:
from: /etc
to: local
options:
forget:
keep-last: 5 # always keep at least 5 snapshots
keep-hourly: 3 # keep 3 last hourly snapshots
keep-daily: 4 # keep 4 last daily snapshots
keep-weekly: 1 # keep 1 last weekly snapshots
keep-monthly: 12 # keep 12 last monthly snapshots
keep-yearly: 7 # keep 7 last yearly snapshots
keep-within: '14d' # keep snapshots from the last 14 days
```
## Globally
You can specify global forget policies that would be applied to all locations:
```yaml | .autorestic.yml
version: 2
global:
forget:
keep-daily: 30
keep-weekly: 52
```
## Automatically forget after backup
You can also configure `autorestic` to automatically run the forget command for you after every backup. You can do that by specifying the `forget` option.
```yaml | .autorestic.yml
version: 2
locations:
etc:
from: /etc
to: local
forget: prune # Or only "yes" if you don't want to prune
options:
forget:
keep-last: 5
```

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# Options
For the `backup` and `forget` commands you can pass any native flags to `restic`. In addition you can specify flags for every command with `all`.
If flags don't start with `-` they will get prefixed with `--`.
Flags without arguments can be set to `true`. They will be handled accordingly.
> It is also possible to set options for an [entire backend](/backend/options) or globally (see below).
```yaml
locations:
foo:
# ...
options:
all:
some-flag: 123
# Equivalent to
--some-flag: 123
backup:
boolean-flag: true
tag:
- foo
- bar
```
## Example
In this example, whenever `autorestic` runs `restic backup` it will append a `--tag foo --tag bar` to the native command.
```yaml
locations:
foo:
path: ...
to: ...
options:
backup:
tag:
- foo
- bar
```
## Priority
Options can be set globally, on the backends or on the locations.
The priority is as follows: `location > backend > global`.
## Global Options
It is possible to specify global flags that will be run every time restic is invoked. To do so specify them under `global` in your config file.
```yaml
global:
all:
cache-dir: ~/restic
backup:
tag:
- foo
backends:
# ...
locations:
# ...
```