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Restic Backup IV — Real-life examples

Remo Hoeppli
CodeX
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5 min readMar 22, 2021

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TL;DR

This blog post is the fourth of four posts about restic, a simple, beautiful, and extremely versatile file backup solution. In this post I will show real-life examples on how to recover forgotten snapshots, mounting the whole repository to a server, changing repository encryption password, and self-updating the installed restic version.

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Remo Hoeppli
CodeX
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I am a co-founder and software engineer at Earlybyte. Further, I’m a technology enthusiast and minimalism advocate, striving for simplicity and efficiency.