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Automating Restic backups (feldspaten.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm having trouble automating the restic backup using systemd.

I followed the linked guide, which seems pretty straightforward. Backup works fine when I run it manually, but when I try to run systemctl status restic-backup.service I get the following error: Fatal: parsing repository location failed: s3: bucket name not found

I have triple-checked the file paths, and also added PassEnvironment=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY RESTIC_REPOSITORY RESTIC_PASSWORD_FILE B2_ACCOUNT_ID B2_ACCOUNT_KEY to the restic-backup.service file, which I saw used elsewhere. This is my first time using systemd, so I'm not sure if I am overlooking an obvious step or what.

OS: Xubuntu

restic: installed locally following these steps

backup: Backblaze B2 bucket with s3

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The problem seems to be that when you run restic with systemctl start, it passen on your user environment including the information of where your rclone.conf lies. When the systemd service runs on its own it doesn't have this. You need to either tell restic the path to your rclone config or set the home environment such that the systemd service checks the right location.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago*

    my Files look like this:

    # /etc/systemd/system/restic-backup.service

[Unit]
Description=Generate a restic backup snapshot
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
WorkingDirectory=/
EnvironmentFile=/etc/restic-env
PassEnvironment=AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY RESTIC_REPOSITORY RESTIC_PASSWORD_FILE
Environment=XDG_CACHE_HOME=/var/cache
ExecStart=/usr/bin/restic backup -r s3:https://s3.us-west-004.backblazeb2.com/XXXBUCKETNAMEXXX /home/XXXX /etc /media/XXXX/Storage --tag auto
ExecStart=/usr/bin/restic forget --prune --keep-hourly 6 --keep-daily 7 --keep-weekly 4 --keep-monthly 6 --tag auto
ExecStart=/usr/bin/restic check --read-data

Nice=19
IOSchedulingClass=best-effort 
IOSchedulingPriority=7
TimeoutSec=3600
Restart=no

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

    # /etc/restic-env

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=004XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=K00XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=s3:s3.us-west-004.backblazeb2.com
export RESTIC_PASSWORD_FILE=/etc/restic-password

DEBUG_LOG=restic.log

    I'm running the systemd commands from a root terminal and the permissions on restic-env and restic-password are 700

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