Capturing a couple formulas for future reference. I was using restic backup stats and wanted to convert the time a job ran into hours and minutes. Also convert bytes process to TB. bytes to TB example: total_bytes_processed: 5773378 / 1000000000000 == 1.502888851889 duration to HH:MM example using libre calc:total_duration: 15870.197288027…
Bash Read Json Config File
Couple of things here. I wanted to do some restic scripts but at the same time use a configuration file. The restic developers is working on this functionality for restic and possibly using TOML. Meanwhile I was trying json since I can definitely use bash/json for other applications. And as…
restic set tags
In a follow up to previous post https://blog.ls-al.com/restic-create-backup-and-set-tag-with-date-logic here is some code I used to set tags on old snapshots to comply with my new tagging and pruning.
Restic create backup and set tag with date logic
Also see previous post https://blog.ls-al.com/bash-date-usage-for-naming if you are interested. This post is similar but more specific to restic tagging. Below is a test script and a test run. At the time of restic backup I create a tag in order to do snapshot forget based on tags. Below is the…
Restic scripting plus jq and minio client
I am jotting down some recent work on scripting restic and also using restic’s json output with jq and mc (minio client). NOTE this is not production just example. Use at your own risk. These are edited by hand from real working scripts but since they are edited they will…
Restic json output and jq
Restic has the ability to show output in json. Here is how I used it for some CSV type reporting I needed on backup jobs. Example json output. With @csv filter. I needed double quotes and could not figure out how to tell @csv filter to quote so below workaround…
Restic and Oracle OCI Object Storage
It seems that after some time went by the S3 compatible object storage OCI interface can now work with restic directly and not necessary to use rclone. Tests a few months ago this did not work. Using S3 directly mean we may not have this issue we see when using…
Restic updates
If you are used to the way how easy rclone updates with a one-liner then this may help with restic also. Found it here: https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1930 “just wanted to share a simple 4-line script to download and install the latest release of restic from Linux shell using cURL to /usr/local/bin:”
Object Storage with Restic and Rclone
I have been playing around with some options to utilize Object Storage for backups. Since I am working on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) I am doing my POC using the OCI Object Storage. OCI object storage does have Swift and S3 Compatibility API’s to interface with. Of course if you…