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autorestic
High backup level CLI utility for restic.
Autorestic is a wrapper around the amazing restic. While being amazing the restic cli can be a bit overwhelming and difficoult to manage if you have many different location that you want to backup to multiple locations. This utility is aimed at making this easier 🙂
🌈 Features
- Config files, no CLI
- Predictable
- Backup locations to multiple backends
- Snapshot policies and pruning
- Simple interface
- Fully encrypted
📒 Docs
🛳 Installation
Linux & macOS. Windows is not supported.
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CupCakeArmy/autorestic/master/install.sh | bash
🚀 Quickstart
Setup
First we need to configure our locations and backends. Simply create a .autorestic.yml either in your home directory of in the folder from which you will execute autorestic.
Optionally you can specify the location of your config file by passing it as argument: autorestic -c ../path/config.yml
locations:
home:
from: /home/me
to: remote
important:
from: /path/to/important/stuff
to:
- remote
- hdd
backends:
remote:
type: b2
path: 'myBucket:backup/home'
B2_ACCOUNT_ID: account_id
B2_ACCOUNT_KEY: account_key
hdd:
type: local
path: /mnt/my_external_storage
Then we check if everything is correct by running the check command. We will pass the -a (or --all) to tell autorestic to check all the locations.
If we would check only one location we could run the following: autorestic check -l home. Otherwise simpply check all locations with autorestic check -a
Note
Note that the data is automatically encrypted on the server. The key will be generated and added to your config file. Every backend will have a separate key. You should keep a copy of the keys somewhere in case your server dies. Otherwise DATA IS LOST!
📦 Backup
autorestic backup -a
📼 Restore
autorestic restore -l home --from hdd --to /path/where/to/restore
📲 Updates
Autorestic can update itself! Super handy right? Simply run autorestic update and we will check for you if there are updates for restic and autorestic and install them if necessary.
🗂 Locations
A location simply a folder on your machine that restic will backup. The paths can be relative from the config file. A location can have multiple backends, so that the data is secured across multiple servers.
locations:
my-location-name:
from: path/to/backup
to:
- name-of-backend
- also-backup-to-this-backend
Pruning and snapshot 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, and can be enabled for each location as shown below:
locations:
etc:
from: /etc
to: local
options:
forget:
keep-last: 5 # always keep at least 5 snapshots
keep-hourly: 3 # keep 3 last hourly shapshots
keep-daily: 4 # keep 4 last daily shapshots
keep-weekly: 1 # keep 1 last weekly shapshots
keep-monthly: 12 # keep 12 last monthly shapshots
keep-yearly: 7 # keep 7 last yearly shapshots
keep-within: "2w" # keep snapshots from the last 2 weeks
Pruning can be triggered using autorestic forget -a, for all locations, or selectively with autorestic forget -l <location>. please note that contrary to the restic CLI, restic forget will call restic prune internally.
Run with the --dry-run flag to only print information about the process without actually pruning the snapshots. This is especially useful for debugging or testing policies:
$ autorestic forget -a --dry-run --verbose
Configuring Backends
local : Done ✓
Removing old shapshots according to policy
etc ▶ local : Removing old spnapshots… ⏳
etc ▶ local : Running in dry-run mode, not touching data
etc ▶ local : Forgeting old snapshots… ⏳Applying Policy: all snapshots within 2d of the newest
keep 3 snapshots:
ID Time Host Tags Reasons Paths
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
531b692a 2019-12-02 12:07:28 computer within 2w /etc
51659674 2019-12-02 12:08:46 computer within 2w /etc
f8f8f976 2019-12-02 12:11:08 computer within 2w /etc
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3 snapshots
Excluding files/folders
If you want to exclude certain files or folders it done easily by specifiyng the right flags in the location you desire to filter. The flags are taken straight from the restic cli exclude rules.
locations:
my-location:
from: /data
to:
- local
- remote
options:
backup:
exclude:
- '*.nope'
- '*.abc'
exclude-file: .gitignore
backends:
local:
...
remote:
...
Before / After hooks
Sometimes you might want to stop an app/db before backing up data and start the service again after the backup has completed. This is what the hooks are made for. Simply add them to your location config. You can have as many commands as you wish.
locations:
my-location:
from: /data
to:
- local
- remote
hooks:
before:
- echo "Hello"
- echo "Human"
after:
- echo "kthxbye"
💽 Backends
Backends are the place where you data will be saved. Backups are incremental and encrypted.
Fields
type
Type of the backend see a list here
Supported are:
For each backend you need to specify the right variables as shown in the example below.
path
The path on the remote server. For object storages as
Example
backends:
name-of-backend:
type: b2
path: 'myAccount:myBucket/my/path'
B2_ACCOUNT_ID: backblaze_account_id
B2_ACCOUNT_KEY: backblaze_account_key
👉 Commands
Info
autorestic info
Shows all the information in the config file. Usefull for a quick overview of what location backups where.
Pro tip: if it gets a bit long you can read it more easily with autorestic info | less 😉
Check
autorestic check [-b, --backend] [-a, --all]
Checks the backends and configures them if needed. Can be applied to all with the -a flag or by specifying one or more backends with the -b or --backend flag.
Backup
autorestic backup [-l, --location] [-a, --all]
Performes a backup of all locations if the -a flag is passed. To only backup some locations pass one or more -l or --location flags.
Restore
autorestic restore [-l, --location] [--from backend] [--to <out dir>]
This will restore all the locations to the selected target. If for one location there are more than one backends specified autorestic will take the first one.
Lets see a more realistic example (from the config above)
autorestic restore -l home --from hdd --to /path/where/to/restore
This will restore the location home to the /path/where/to/restore folder and taking the data from the backend hdd
autorestic restore
Performes a backup of all locations if the -a flag is passed. To only backup some locations pass one or more -l or --location flags.
Forget
autorestic forget [-l, --location] [-a, --all] [--dry-run]
This will prune and remove old data form the backends according to the keep policy you have specified for the location
The --dry-run flag will do a dry run showing what would have been deleted, but won't touch the actual data.
Exec
autorestic exec [-b, --backend] [-a, --all] <command> -- [native options]
This is avery handy command which enables you to run any native restic command on desired backends. An example would be listing all the snapshots of all your backends:
autorestic exec -a -- snapshots
Install
Installs both restic and autorestic
Uninstall
Uninstall both restic and autorestic
Upgrade
Upgrades both restic and autorestic automagically
Contributors
This amazing people helped the project!
- @ChanceM [Docs]
- @EliotBerriot [Docs, Pruning, S3]