Installation

See https://restic.github.io

On mac: brew install restic

Configuration

Set these environment variables. The key values do not matter.

  1. export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=any-key-id
  2. export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=any-access-key

Execute commands

  1. # create the bucket
  2. $ s3cmd mb s3://resticbucket
  4. $ restic -r s3:http://localhost:8333/resticbucket init
  6. $ restic -r s3:http://localhost:8333/resticbucket backup /Users/chris/dev/gopath/bin/
  7. open repository
  8. enter password for repository:
  9. repository 47edd0a2 opened successfully, password is correct
  10. created new cache in /Users/chris/Library/Caches/restic
  12. Files:          71 new,     0 changed,     0 unmodified
  13. Dirs:            4 new,     0 changed,     0 unmodified
  14. Added to the repo: 805.611 MiB
  16. processed 71 files, 807.721 MiB in 0:05
  17. snapshot 7436ec41 saved