resticprofile is a configuration profiles manager and scheduler

resticprofile is a configuration profiles manager and scheduler for restic.

resticprofile is the missing link between a configuration file and restic backup. Creating a configuration file for restic has been discussed before, but seems to be a very low priority right now.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• No need to remember command parameters and environment variables.
• Create multiple profiles inside one configuration file.
• A profile can inherit all the options from another profile.
• Run the forget command before or after a backup (in a section called retention).
• Check a repository before or after a backup.
• Create groups of profiles that will run sequentially.
• Run shell commands before or after running a profile: useful if you need to mount and unmount your backup disk for example.
• Run a shell command if an error occurred (at any time).
• Send a backup stream via stdin.
• Start restic at a lower or higher priority (Priority Class in Windows, nice in all unixes) and/or ionice (only available on Linux).
• Check that you have enough memory before starting a backup.
• Generate cryptographically secure random keys to use as a restic key file.
• Easily schedule backups, retentions and checks (works for systemd, crond, launchd and windows task scheduler).
• Generate a simple status file to send to some monitoring software and make sure your backups are running fine.
• Use a template syntax in your configuration file.
• Generate scheduled tasks using crond.
• Get backup statistics in your status file.
• Automatically clear up stale locks.
• Export a Prometheus file after a backup, or send the report to a push gateway automatically.
• Run shell commands in the background when non fatal errors are detected from restic.
• Send messages to HTTP hooks before, after a successful or failed job (backup, forget, check, prune, copy).
• Automatically initialize the secondary repository using copy-chunker-params flag.
• Send resticprofile logs to a syslog server.
• Prevent your system from idle sleeping.
• Don’t schedule a job when the system is running on battery.
• Schedule a group of profiles is finally available.

Website: github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile
Support:
Developer: Fred
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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