Restic Helper

A stiped down version of restic-systemd-automatic-backup to automate restic backups using systemd and dbus notifications.

Requirements

• Systemd based Linux system
• restic backup client and existing back up repo.
• libnotify

Installation

1. Download or clone the repo.
2. cd to the directory and run sudo make install
3. Edit config files

• /etc/restic_helper/config.sh - Add hostname/IP and remote backup path. Also modify back up retention limits and root backup path.
• /etc/restic_helper/restic_pw.txt - Add your restic remote password
• /etc/restic_helper/restic_excludes.txt - List of files and directories for restic to ignore

4. systemctl start restic-helper-backup and optionally systemctl start restic-helper-check