Restic

Restic is validated for use with Lyve Cloud Object Storage.

Configure Restic

To configure Restic for use with Lyve Cloud:

1. Export the variables:

• export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="s3:s3.<region>.sv15.lyve.seagate.com/<bucket>"
• export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="<access-key>"
• export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="<secret-key>"

where:

• <region> is the appropriate Lyve Cloud region, for example, us-east-1.
• <bucket> is the name of your Lyve Cloud bucket.
• <access-key> is your access key.
• <secret-key> is your secret key.

2. Initialize the repository:

• Run command: restic init
• Enter password for new repository

Restic Basic Commands

Backup

restic backup /Users/660186/desktop/PicFolder

Result

enter password for repository:
repository 91500045 opened (version 2, compression level auto)
created new cache in /Users/660186/Library/Caches/restic
no parent snapshot found, will read all files
[0:00]          0 index files loaded

Files:           4 new,     0 changed,     0 unmodified
Dirs:            4 new,     0 changed,     0 unmodified
Added to the repository: 2.154 MiB (2.121 MiB stored)

processed 4 files, 2.149 MiB in 0:19
snapshot 69ea64c2 saved

Restore

restic restore latest --target /Users/660186/documents/Restic

Result

enter password for repository:
repository 91500045 opened (version 2, compression level auto)
[0:00] 100.00%  1 / 1 index files loaded
restoring snapshot 69ea64c2 of [/Users/660186/desktop/PicFolder] at 2024-11-15 09:36:30.23865 +0100 CET by 660186@sgs-u660186l320 to /Users/660186/documents/Restic
Summary: Restored 8 files/dirs (2.149 MiB) in 0:04

Check

restic check 

Result

using temporary cache in /var/folders/56/5mhgst5d00xdtvlg3nx1gmcrmrpk1z/T/restic-check-cache-4112886137
create exclusive lock for repository
enter password for repository:
repository 91500045 opened (version 2, compression level auto)
created new cache in /var/folders/56/5mhgst5d00xdtvlg3nx1gmcrmrpk1z/T/restic-check-cache-4112886137 load indexes
[0:00] 100.00%  1 / 1 index files loaded
check all packs
check snapshots, trees and blobs
[0:00] 100.00%  1 / 1 snapshots