Merge pull request #26 from sumnerboy12/patch-1

add support for rest server backends

docs/md/backend/available.md

@@ -48,4 +48,15 @@ backends:
     path: my-host:/remote/path/on/the/server
 ```
 
+## Rest Server
+
+See [here](https://github.com/restic/rest-server) for how to install a rest server backend and [here](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#rest-server) for further documentation.
+
+```yaml
+backends:
+  name-of-backend:
+    type: rest
+    path: http://localhost:8000/repo_name
+```
+
 > :ToCPrevNext

src/backend.ts

@@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ export const getPathFromBackend = (backend: Backend): string => {
 		case 'gs':
 		case 's3':
 		case 'sftp':
-			return `${backend.type}:${backend.path}`
 		case 'rest':
-			throw new Error(`Unsupported backend type: "${backend.type}"`)
+			return `${backend.type}:${backend.path}`
 		default:
 			throw new Error(`Unknown backend type.`)
 	}