velouria/restic

Restic Backup and Restore Guide

📚 Useful Commands

🔄 Restoring Files from a Running Docker Compose Container

1. Identify Latest Snapshot for the Host: Execute the following command to find the latest snapshot for the current host and note down the ID.

# Find the latest snapshot for the current host (note the ID)
docker-compose exec app restic snapshots -H <HOSTNAME>

2. Restore Specific File: Use the snapshot ID to restore the desired file on the host.

docker-compose exec app restic restore --include /path/to/file <ID>

📋 Listing Snapshots

docker compose run --rm backup snapshots

🌐 Accessing Backblaze Files Locally

In local, download via brew install b2-tools

Known issues

🚫 Ciphertext Verification Failure

Fatal: config or key 2327d55bb96f4cab846b07cc8ffe5906c88c3e657f326a506ccfcf95cd8fd1e7 is damaged: ciphertext verification failed

Related issue

⚠️ Pruning and Backup Operations

Do not run both prune and backup at the same time. When initializing, need to run individually.

docker compose up -d backup

docker compose up -d prune

docker compose up -d check