Simple restic backup script

This is a simple backup script written in Python 3 and relying on restic to perform backups. This script assumes that you have set up a user restic on your system and the restic binary file is in /home/restic/bin/. You can always change it in the script if you wish. It also relies on an instance healthchecks.io to monitor the script execution.

Usage

Set up a cron job as the user restic with crontab -e. Example of a cron job running every day at 23:00:

0 23 * * * python3 /home/restic/backup.py --config config.yaml

Configuration file

The configuration is in YAML and expects 3 sections:

• backup: lists the folders and files to backup (absolute paths only)
• restic: defines the repository to backup to and the file holding the password to this repository
• healthchecks: defines the healthchecks server url and token