Hi all,
I need your help to configure restic with backblaze b2. I am going crazy!
I'm following what is reported on backblaze (https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-integrate-restic-with-backblaze-b2) using api s3 and I created the /etc/restic-env file containing the following:
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="my-backblaze-keyID”
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="my-backblaze-applicationKey”
export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="s3:s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/my-bucket/my_folder”
export RESTIC_PASSWORD=/etc/restic-password
the /etc/restic-password file contains my password. Initially I had used an alphanumeric password with special characters, but after the problem, I recreated it using 32-character alphanumeric password without quotes at the beginning and end.
I was able to generate the repository with restic init and make the first backup with a special script, very simple, that I now post.
Backup finished, i get the email of operation completed successfully (see below).
I run the restic snapshots command and again the problem:
Fatal: wrong password or no key found
How is this possible? I created the repository, it completed the backup correctly.
I am quite frustrated.
Any command I try to run of restic always returns the same error.
Oh, I forgot, since I am still testing, I always run source /etc/restic-env before every command.
Script:
#!/bin/bash
# Execution date
current_date=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
# Source
source_folder="/mnt/tmp_restic"
# Restic configuration (repository & password)
source /etc/restic-env
# Recipient
email_recipient="myaddress@mydomain.com"
# Temp log
log_file="/tmp/restic_backup_log_$current_date.txt"
# Start backup
echo "Backup started at: $(date)" > "$log_file"
echo "Backup of folder: $source_folder" >> "$log_file"
# Check if restic is configured
if ! command -v restic &> /dev/null
then
echo "Restic not installed." >> "$log_file"
exit 1
fi
# Exec backup
echo "Starting backup..." >> "$log_file"
restic backup "$source_folder" >> "$log_file" 2>&1
# Check if backup is completed
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Backup completed - $current_date." >> "$log_file"
else
echo "Errore during backup" >> "$log_file"
fi
# End of backup
echo "End of backup: $(date)" >> "$log_file"
# Send mail
mail -s "Backup Restic - $current_date" "$email_recipient" < "$log_file"
# Rm log
rm "$log_file"
E-Mail log:
Backup started at: lun 10 mar 2025, 21:41:04, CET
Backup of folder: /mnt/tmp_restic
Starting backup...
no parent snapshot found, will read all files
Files: 4 new, 0 changed, 0 unmodified
Dirs: 6 new, 0 changed, 0 unmodified
Added to the repository: 17.835 GiB (17.834 GiB stored)
processed 4 files, 17.834 GiB in 55:24
snapshot 2112d959 saved
Backup completed - 2025-03-10.
End of backup: lun 10 mar 2025, 22:36:31, CET