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title = "Backups (restic, duplicity...)"
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weight = 25
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Backups are essential for disaster recovery but they are not trivial to manage.
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Using Garage as your backup target will enable you to scale your storage as needed while ensuring high availability.
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## Borg Backup
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Borg Backup is very popular among the backup tools but it is not yet compatible with the S3 API.
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We recommend using any other tool listed in this guide because they are all compatible with the S3 API.
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If you still want to use Borg, you can use it with `rclone mount`.
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## Restic
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Create your key and bucket:
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```bash
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garage key create my-key
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garage bucket create backup
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garage bucket allow backup --read --write --key my-key
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```
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Then register your Key ID and Secret key in your environment:
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```bash
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export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=GKxxx
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export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=xxxx
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```
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Configure restic from environment too:
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```bash
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export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="s3:http://localhost:3900/backups"
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echo "Generated password (save it safely): $(openssl rand -base64 32)"
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export RESTIC_PASSWORD=xxx # copy paste your generated password here
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```
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Do not forget to save your password safely (in your password manager or print it). It will be needed to decrypt your backups.
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Now you can use restic:
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```bash
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# Initialize the bucket, must be run once
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restic init
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# Backup your PostgreSQL database
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# (We suppose your PostgreSQL daemon is stopped for all commands)
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restic backup /var/lib/postgresql
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# Show backup history
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restic snapshots
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# Backup again your PostgreSQL database, it will be faster as only changes will be uploaded
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restic backup /var/lib/postgresql
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# Show backup history (again)
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restic snapshots
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# Restore a backup
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# (79766175 is the ID of the snapshot you want to restore)
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mv /var/lib/postgresql /var/lib/postgresql.broken
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restic restore 79766175 --target /var/lib/postgresql
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```
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Restic has way more features than the ones presented here.
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You can discover all of them by accessing its documentation from the link below.
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*External links:* [Restic Documentation > Amazon S3](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#amazon-s3)
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## Duplicity
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*External links:* [Duplicity > man](https://duplicity.gitlab.io/duplicity-web/vers8/duplicity.1.html) (scroll to "URL Format" and "A note on Amazon S3")
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## Duplicati
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*External links:* [Duplicati Documentation > Storage Providers](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/05-storage-providers/#s3-compatible)
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The following fields need to be specified:
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```
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Storage Type: S3 Compatible
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Use SSL: [ ] # Only if you have SSL
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Server: Custom server url (s3.garage.localhost:3900)
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Bucket name: bucket-name
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Bucket create region: Custom region value (garage) # Or as you've specified in garage.toml
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AWS Access ID: Key ID from "garage key info key-name"
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AWS Access Key: Secret key from "garage key info key-name"
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Client Library to use: Minio SDK
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```
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Click `Test connection` and then no when asked `The bucket name should start with your username, prepend automatically?`. Then it should say `Connection worked!`.
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## knoxite
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*External links:* [Knoxite Documentation > Storage Backends](https://knoxite.com/docs/storage-backends/#amazon-s3)
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## kopia
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*External links:* [Kopia Documentation > Repositories](https://kopia.io/docs/repositories/#amazon-s3)
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To create the Kopia repository, you need to specify the region, the HTTP(S) endpoint, the bucket name and the access keys.
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For instance, if you have an instance of garage running on `https://garage.example.com`:
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```
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kopia repository create s3 --region=garage --bucket=mybackups --access-key=KEY_ID --secret-access-key=SECRET_KEY --endpoint=garage.example.com
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```
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Or if you have an instance running on localhost, without TLS:
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```
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kopia repository create s3 --region=garage --bucket=mybackups --access-key=KEY_ID --secret-access-key=SECRET_KEY --endpoint=localhost:3900 --disable-tls
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```
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After the repository has been created, check that everything works as expected:
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```
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kopia repository validate-provider
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```
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You can then run all the standard kopia commands: `kopia snapshot create`, `kopia mount`...
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Everything should work out-of-the-box.
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