Subj : backup for windows pc?
To   : Deon George
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Sep 21 2023 18:53:00

Hello Deon George!

** On Thursday 21.09.23 - 11:28, Deon George wrote to Arelor:

 DG> I dont recall if I've done any restores, with restic.

 DG> If backups are slow it wouldnt bother me as I have it
 DG> running in the background while I do something else. The
 DG> hardware that runs my Windows is an atom server under
 DG> VMware, so its slow anyway...

Having some issues with restic.

I tried restic -r sftp:user@server.com:/restic/archive

...and it complained:

Fatal: Create repository at sftp:user@server.com:/restic/ 
archive failed: cmd.Start: exec: "ssh": executable file not  
found in %PATH%.

So.. it seems that restic is not entirely complete in one  
binary and needs external programs such as ssh.exe ?

I tried the -o sftp.command="prog" parameter where prog is  
putty.exe with full path to its location, but it claimed it was  
not found.


 DG> I know it'd be an old version, so I might upgrade it and
 DG> redo a backup and see how it goes. (Compression in restic
 DG> only came recently, so I need to ugprade to take advantage
 DG> of that.)

Do you use sftp? Can you illustrate the command line and  
parameters you use?

I had better luck with winscp:

winscp sftp://user@server.com:2222//enc/archive

...and it connected and worked (manually) fine.  The next step  
would be to make it work with gpgtar piped output.


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