simple_restic_backup_scripts

These are some simple bash scripts to be used when scheduling a daily backup of your user profile on Windows with Restic. The scripts in the bin folder are:

• restic-run-backup.sh: the main backup script; to be invoked daily from cron(8) etc.
• restic-do-check.sh: a script to check the consistency of the backup repository/destination; to be invoked daily after a successful restic-run-backup.sh
• restic-forget-according-to-my-policy.sh: a script to maintain the number of daily, weekly, monthly, etc. backups that one wishes to keep and then "forget" or drop the rest; to be invoked daily after a successful restic-do-check.sh
• restic-execute-pruning-phase.sh: a script to prune the old backups dropped by restic-forget-according-to-my-policy.sh thus reclaiming disk space; to be invoked less frequently than daily – for instance weekly, bi-weekly or monthly – due to its long running time

There are some maintenance or recovery scripts in the bin/maint folder that can be occasionally useful but don’t need to be scheduled regularly:

• restic-do-check--read-data.sh: does the same as restic-do-check.sh but calls restic check with the --read-data flag causing it to go through all the stored data in the backup repository looking for errors (takes a long time)
• restic-execute-rebuild-index.sh: rebuilds the Restic repository index based on actual stored data a.k.a. pack files; a recovery command that does restic rebuild-index
• restic-run-backup--force.sh: runs the Restic backup proper but this version forces the re-reading of all the files to be backed; a recovery command identical with restic-run-backup.sh except that it that calls restic backup with the --force flag