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date: 2019-08-26T15:19:45+01:00
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title: "rclone serve restic"
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slug: rclone_serve_restic
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url: /commands/rclone_serve_restic/
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---
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## rclone serve restic
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Serve the remote for restic's REST API.
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### Synopsis
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rclone serve restic implements restic's REST backend API
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over HTTP. This allows restic to use rclone as a data storage
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mechanism for cloud providers that restic does not support directly.
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[Restic](https://restic.net/) is a command line program for doing
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backups.
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The server will log errors. Use -v to see access logs.
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--bwlimit will be respected for file transfers. Use --stats to
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control the stats printing.
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### Setting up rclone for use by restic ###
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First [set up a remote for your chosen cloud provider](/docs/#configure).
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Once you have set up the remote, check it is working with, for example
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"rclone lsd remote:". You may have called the remote something other
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than "remote:" - just substitute whatever you called it in the
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following instructions.
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Now start the rclone restic server
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rclone serve restic -v remote:backup
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Where you can replace "backup" in the above by whatever path in the
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remote you wish to use.
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By default this will serve on "localhost:8080" you can change this
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with use of the "--addr" flag.
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You might wish to start this server on boot.
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### Setting up restic to use rclone ###
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Now you can [follow the restic
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instructions](http://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#rest-server)
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on setting up restic.
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Note that you will need restic 0.8.2 or later to interoperate with
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rclone.
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For the example above you will want to use "http://localhost:8080/" as
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the URL for the REST server.
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For example:
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$ export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=rest:http://localhost:8080/
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$ export RESTIC_PASSWORD=yourpassword
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$ restic init
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created restic backend 8b1a4b56ae at rest:http://localhost:8080/
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Please note that knowledge of your password is required to access
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the repository. Losing your password means that your data is
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irrecoverably lost.
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$ restic backup /path/to/files/to/backup
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scan [/path/to/files/to/backup]
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scanned 189 directories, 312 files in 0:00
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[0:00] 100.00% 38.128 MiB / 38.128 MiB 501 / 501 items 0 errors ETA 0:00
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duration: 0:00
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snapshot 45c8fdd8 saved
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#### Multiple repositories ####
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Note that you can use the endpoint to host multiple repositories. Do
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this by adding a directory name or path after the URL. Note that
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these **must** end with /. Eg
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$ export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=rest:http://localhost:8080/user1repo/
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# backup user1 stuff
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$ export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=rest:http://localhost:8080/user2repo/
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# backup user2 stuff
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#### Private repositories ####
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The "--private-repos" flag can be used to limit users to repositories starting
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with a path of "/<username>/".
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### Server options
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Use --addr to specify which IP address and port the server should
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listen on, eg --addr 1.2.3.4:8000 or --addr :8080 to listen to all
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IPs. By default it only listens on localhost. You can use port
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:0 to let the OS choose an available port.
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If you set --addr to listen on a public or LAN accessible IP address
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then using Authentication is advised - see the next section for info.
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--server-read-timeout and --server-write-timeout can be used to
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control the timeouts on the server. Note that this is the total time
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for a transfer.
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--max-header-bytes controls the maximum number of bytes the server will
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accept in the HTTP header.
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--baseurl controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from. By default
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rclone will serve from the root. If you used --baseurl "/rclone" then
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rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/". This is
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useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve. Rclone automatically
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inserts leading and trailing "/" on --baseurl, so --baseurl "rclone",
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--baseurl "/rclone" and --baseurl "/rclone/" are all treated
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identically.
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#### Authentication
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By default this will serve files without needing a login.
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You can either use an htpasswd file which can take lots of users, or
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set a single username and password with the --user and --pass flags.
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Use --htpasswd /path/to/htpasswd to provide an htpasswd file. This is
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in standard apache format and supports MD5, SHA1 and BCrypt for basic
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authentication. Bcrypt is recommended.
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To create an htpasswd file:
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touch htpasswd
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htpasswd -B htpasswd user
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htpasswd -B htpasswd anotherUser
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The password file can be updated while rclone is running.
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Use --realm to set the authentication realm.
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#### SSL/TLS
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By default this will serve over http. If you want you can serve over
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https. You will need to supply the --cert and --key flags. If you
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wish to do client side certificate validation then you will need to
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supply --client-ca also.
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--cert should be a either a PEM encoded certificate or a concatenation
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of that with the CA certificate. --key should be the PEM encoded
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private key and --client-ca should be the PEM encoded client
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certificate authority certificate.
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```
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rclone serve restic remote:path [flags]
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```
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### Options
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```
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--addr string IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to. (default "localhost:8080")
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--append-only disallow deletion of repository data
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--baseurl string Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root.
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--cert string SSL PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
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--client-ca string Client certificate authority to verify clients with
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-h, --help help for restic
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--htpasswd string htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
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--key string SSL PEM Private key
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--max-header-bytes int Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
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--pass string Password for authentication.
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--private-repos users can only access their private repo
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--realm string realm for authentication (default "rclone")
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--server-read-timeout duration Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
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--server-write-timeout duration Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
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--stdio run an HTTP2 server on stdin/stdout
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--user string User name for authentication.
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```
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See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.
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### SEE ALSO
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* [rclone serve](/commands/rclone_serve/) - Serve a remote over a protocol.
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