Question: Is it possible to add backup arguments to cron jobs?

[zoispag]

I am using restiker to automate my backups. I want to exclude a few directories matching some rules.
Restic allows to exclude items listed in a file, by providing the --exclude-file argument for the backup command.

Is it possible to provide certain arguments in the backup command of the cron job?

[djmaze]

As it currently stands, you can prepend your custom parameters to the RESTIC_BACKUP_SOURCES variable. For example the following should work:

RESTIC_BACKUP_SOURCES="--exclude-file=/excludes /data"

As this is an unclean approach, we should probably add a separate variable for this in the next version.

[zoispag]

Nice workaround for now! Thanks for your response! Cheers!

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[zoispag]

Shall we re-open, just not to forget to do this?

[djmaze]

Yes.

[zoispag]

@djmaze reminder to reopen and remove the tags.

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[zoispag]

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[ThomDietrich]

I'm also interested in the feature The issue is quickly taken care of here plus the needed bit of documentation. Would you accept a PR?

Straight forward approach would be to add RESTIC_BACKUP_ARGS, however, I feel there is an inconsistency with RESTIC_BACKUP_TAGS which is just as much an "ARG" as excludes are. Suggest to deprecate RESTIC_BACKUP_TAGS but don't have to ;)