link🚀 Quickstart

linkInstallation

1curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CupCakeArmy/autorestic/master/install.sh | bash

linkWrite a simple config file

1vim .autorestic.yml

For a quick overview:

• locations can be seen as the inputs and backends the output where the data is stored and backed up.
• One location can have one or multiple backends for redudancy.
• One backend can also be the target for multiple locations.
• Backup the config file as it will contain the generated keys. If you don't have a copy of that keys, the backups are useless as they are encrypted and data will be not recoverable.

.autorestic.yml
1locations:

2  home:

3    from: /home/me

4    to: remote

5

6  important:

7    from: /path/to/important/stuff

8    to:

9      - remote

10      - hdd

11

12backends:

13  remote:

14    type: s3

15    path: 's3.amazonaws.com/bucket_name'

16    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: account_id

17    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: account_key

18

19  hdd:

20    type: local

21    path: /mnt/my_external_storage

linkCheck

1autorestic check -a

This checks if the config file has any issues. If this is the first time this can take longer as autorestic will setup the backends.

Now is good time to backup the config. After you run autorestic at least once we will add the generated encryption keys to the config.

linkBackup

1autorestic backup -a

This will do a backup of all locations.

linkRestore

1autorestic restore -l home --from hdd --to /path/where/to/restore

This will restore the location home from the backend hdd to the given path.