pbt001

My Laptop Backup with restic

Some notes about setting up automatic backup on IBM Cloud Object Storage.

Inspired by an article about making free backups to the cloud and this one about automating the process with systemd, I decided to set up automatic backup over the internet of my mule laptop "lapdog". It's an Arch Linux powered machine I mostly use to kill time, so it's not a big deal if for some reason I screw things up. Something went wrong when I followed that guide, so I decided to retrace all the steps following restic and aws documentation instead of those articles. And here is my version of the guide (hope it helps someone) IBM COS basically let you create an Amazon S3 bucket with up to 25GB of cloud space to load your backups for free!:grin: Too small for a full system backup, but enough for d

pbt001

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# GENERAL

## Configurate Swap
echo -e "\n
# Configurate swap
vm.swappiness = 10
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 50" >> /usr/lib/sysctl.d/00-system.conf

pbt001

# Exclude poky default build dir
git/poky/build
# Exclude our sstate, downloads, and build output dirs
mr-oe-*/sstate-cache
mr-oe-*/downloads
mr-oe-*/*-oe-build/tmp-*
git/poky-wrap/titan
git/poky-wrap/downloads
git/poky-wrap/sstate-cache
# Exclude virt-manager and downloads dirs

pbt001

Time-machine with restic

Features

• Differential backups
• Deduplication
• Encrypted ❤️
• Backup cleaning
• Less than 1€ a month

pbt001

FROM golang:1.13.10-buster AS builder

ARG VERSION_RESTIC=v0.9.6
ARG VERSION_RCLONE=v1.51.0

WORKDIR /opt

RUN apt-get update \
 && apt-get install -y \
       git \

pbt001

# Dependencies
yum install curl jq git golang

# Optional Yum Repo for Newer Go Version
# https://go-repo.io/
rpm --import https://mirror.go-repo.io/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-GO-REPO
curl -s https://mirror.go-repo.io/centos/go-repo.repo | tee /etc/yum.repos.d/go-repo.repo
yum install golang

# Define Variables

pbt001

#!/bin/bash

# Location of your restic repo
export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/run/media/kenneth/MyBook/restic
# Password of the restic repo
# Use a keyring to store the password so it isn't stored in plaintext on disk
# Install python-keyring (Arch) to use this command
export RESTIC_PASSWORD=`keyring get restic MyBook`

if ! restic snapshots

pbt001

#!/bin/bash

#: Title              : restic
#: Date               : July 15 2018
#: Author             : Matt Vance
#: Version            : 1.1
#: Description        : Script to fully sytem backlup
#: License            : MIT License (MIT)

# Copyright (C) 2019 Matthew Vance

pbt001

#!/bin/bash

#: Title              : restic stats
#: Date               : October 14, 2018
#: Author             : Matt Vance
#: Version            : 1.0
#: Description        : Script to fully sytem backlup
#: License            : MIT License (MIT)

# Copyright (C) 2018 Matthew Vance

pbt001

bind 192.168.1.106:8889
tls /etc/caddy/ssl/host_name-bundle.pem /etc/caddy/ssl/end_device-key.pem {
    protocols tls1.2 tls1.3
}

# Reverse proxy to rclone restic rest service
proxy / localhost:8080 {
    # health_check /
    transparent
    max_conns 1024