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

.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 [Optional]

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.

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.