restic cheatsheet (specific to fish shell)

restic_cheatsheet.fish

# initilise restic backup repository + generate an initial key
restic init -r <repository-directory>

# configure enviroemnt varables (fish) / alter as needed
set -x RESTIC_REPOSITORY /path/to/repository
set -x RESTIC_PASSWORD_FILE /path/to/.restic_password
set -x RESTIC_PASSWORD my_AmZiNiNg_password
set -x RESTIC_EXCLUDE_FILE /path/to/.restic_exclude

# run a backup to the repository
restic backup <backup-source-file-or-directory>

# show snapshots
restic snapshots

# show top level items from latest snapshot 
restic ls (restic snapshots --json | jq 'sort_by(.time) | .[-1]' | grep '"id": ' | tr -d , | tr -d \" | awk '{print $2}') | grep -E "^/"

# another approach is to tag a snapshot and then list it via that tag...

# prune snapshot data 
restic prune

# check the repository
restic check