This plugin makes it easy to run a restic backup server! This plugin uses restic/rest-server to make your backup repositories reachable over HTTPS.
Using restic's "rest" backend instead of the "sftp" backend is likely to provide faster transfer speeds because it avoids a lot of SFTP's flow control problems, where transfers slow down more than necessary.
The advantage of using this plugin over the bare rest-server command is that Caddy provides HTTPS by managing TLS certificates for you, so you always get a secure access point for your repositories and you don't have to reload the server to renew certificates.
The restic plugin requires authentication using basicauth because otherwise anyone could access your backups. (Yes, restic backups are encrypted, but people could still delete them, etc.) The examples here are shown in conjunction with the basicauth directive for this reason. Requests to the rest-server endpoints without authentication will be forbidden. Caddy uses HTTPS by default, and it is not safe to use this plugin without HTTPS (TLS). Do not disable TLS.
The underlying rest-server needs a data path within which the restic repositories are stored. By default, it is /tmp/restic, but you should change this to a non-temporary path for storing actual backups.
The syntax of the restic directive is:
restic [base_path [data_path]]
The restic plugin can be used without arguments:
basicauth / user pass
restic
This configures all requests to be processed by rest-server using the default data path. This is useful mostly for testing or experimenting.
basicauth /backups user pass
restic /backups
This does the same thing, but only for HTTP requests to /backups. The data path is the same.
basicauth /backups user pass
restic /backups /home/me/backups
This sets the base path of requests to be /backups and the data path on disk to be /home/me/backups. In other words, all requests to /backup will be handled by the rest-server to manage restic repositories within /home/me/backups.
Once your server is running, you can access your backups via HTTPS with restic quite easily:
$ restic --repo "rest:https://user:[email protected]/repo_name" snapshots
The path to the repository (repo_name) will be relative to the data path you specified in your Caddyfile.