Restic Helper

A stiped down version of restic-systemd-automatic-backup to automate restic backups using systemd and dbus notifications.

Requirements

Systemd based Linux system
restic backup client and existing back up repo.
libnotify

Installation

Download or clone the repo.
cd to the directory and run sudo make install
Edit config files

/etc/restic_helper/config.sh - Add hostname/IP and remote backup path. Also modify back up retention limits and root backup path.
/etc/restic_helper/restic_pw.txt - Add your restic remote password
/etc/restic_helper/restic_excludes.txt - List of files and directories for restic to ignore

systemctl start restic-helper-backup and optionally systemctl start restic-helper-check