Restic and Oracle OCI Object Storage

admin November 10, 2018

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 + rclone:
rclone: 2018/11/02 20:04:16 ERROR : data/fa/fadbb4f1d9172a4ecb591ddf5677b0889c16a8b98e5e3329d63aa152e235602e: Didn't finish writing GET request (wrote 9086/15280 bytes): http2: stream closed

This shows how I setup restic to Oracle OCI object storage(no rclone required).

Current restic env pointing to rclone.conf
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# more /root/.restic-env 
export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="rclone:s3_servers_ashburn:bucket1"
export RESTIC_PASSWORD="blahblah"

# more /root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf 
[s3_servers_phoenix]
type = s3
env_auth = false
access_key_id =  
secret_access_key =  
region = us-phoenix-1
endpoint = <client-id>.compat.objectstorage.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com
location_constraint = 
acl = private
server_side_encryption = 
storage_class = 
[s3_servers_ashburn]
type = s3
env_auth = false
access_key_id =  
secret_access_key = 
region = us-ashburn-1
endpoint = <client-id>.compat.objectstorage.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com
location_constraint =
acl = private
server_side_encryption =

New restic env pointing to S3 style
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# more /root/.restic-env 
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="s3:<client-id>.compat.objectstorage.us-ashburn-1.oraclecloud.com/bucket1"
export RESTIC_PASSWORD="blahblah"

# . /root/.restic-env

# /usr/local/bin/restic snapshots
repository 26e5f447 opened successfully, password is correct
ID        Date                 Host             Tags        Directory
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dc9827fd  2018-08-31 21:20:02  server1                      /etc
cb311517  2018-08-31 21:20:04  server1                      /home
f65a3bb5  2018-08-31 21:20:06  server1                      /var
{...}
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36 snapshots