Resticprofile specify compression level

[stefanroellin]

Since restic version 0.14.0, it is possible to specify a compression level.
Is there a possibility to specify the compression level in a profile? I haven't found anything in the documentation.

[jkellerer]

resticprofile passes any additional arguments that are specified inside a profile to the restic binary. In addition it also allows to specify extra environment variables. This means there are in general 2 options to specify compression mode:

Option 1 - environment:

default:
  environment:
    RESTIC_COMPRESSION: auto

Option 2 - additional argument in backup section:

default:
  backup:
    compression: auto

[stefanroellin]

Thanks! I have tried option 2, which works fine.

[jkellerer]

For existing repositories, compression is only available after the repository format was converted to 2. Conversion can also be performed with resticprofile using:

  resticprofile migrate upgrade_repo_v2
or
  resticprofile ProfileName.migrate upgrade_repo_v2

(conversion is performed by restic, use at your own risk)