Restic using rclone to backup in Onedrive

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NethServer 7.7.1908

Hi,

I want to use my space in Onedrive to perform cloud backups.
Is there a way to do this using rclone and restic in Nethserver?
I tried to follow instructions in rclone and restic documentations, but failed to access rest server in 127.0.0.1:8080.
I’m really not sure what I’m doing.
Appreciate any help.
Thanks a lot.
Cheers

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Hi,

I got it working.
Created a repo in restic with “restic -r rclone:remote:foo init”
Installed rest-server following instructions in Nethserver documentation.
Edited rest-server.service:

  • user=root
  • group=root
  • exec=/usr/bin/rclone serve restic -v remote:foo --addr :8000
    Created a backup using “rest” following instructions in Nethserver documentation.
    That’s it.
    Cheers.
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From a security point of view: option to create a dedicated user for this job instead of root? (with limited permissions)

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@robb
Yes, certainly a better approach. I will do that.
I think repository creation in not necessary, too.
Well, tests continues.

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Would you please share, at the end of testing, a little howto on how recreate this environment?
A lots of Office365 users have 1tb of cloud space, and maybe could be a nice place for have a second or third backup copy…
And i am a user of OneDrive, which is quite empty; a cloud backup of the configuration of my setup could be a nice safevest.

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@pike

I’m still in testing, but you can get it working with this few steps:

  • create a regular user
  • change from root to created user
  • install and configure rclone: https://rclone.org/install
  • return to root
  • install rest-server: http://docs.nethserver.org/projects/nethserver-devel/en/latest/nethserver-backup-data.html#rest-server
  • before “systemd daemon-reload” pass, edit /etc/systemd/system/rest-server.service: User:“created user”, Group:“created user group”, "ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone serve restic --b2-hard-delete --drive-use-trash=false --addr 127.0.0.1:8000 -v “your remote”:“your directory if any”. There’s a lot of other options, like https, user, password etc.
  • Cockpit doesn’t have an option to create backups from rest-server. I used an example from Nethserver docs with some modifications: “db backups set t1 restic VFSType rest BackupTime ‘00 1 * * *’ CleanupOlderThan 7D Notify error NotifyTo root@localhost status enabled
    RestDirectory t1 RestHost 127.0.0.1 RestPort 8000 RestProtocol http signal-event nethserver-backup-data-save t1”
  • access backup’s Cockpit page and execute t1 backup. You can’t edit it, because Cockpit doesn’t support it. If it goes wrong, see “View last log” for detais.

That’s it.

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Thanks for sharing @celiofk :slight_smile:

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:+1:

You’re welcome.