Recovery Restic Repository

[hunterbit]

Hi everyone,
the pc where Backrest is installed is no longer available due to a disk problem. I had to reinstall the operating system and install backrest but I don't know how to restore the old configuration.
The problem is that when I create a new REPO it always tries to run INIT but in reality the repository is already initialized by the old PC.
How can I connect the new configuration to an existing REPO?

Thanks.

[garethgeorge]

Hey, would you mind providing some logs / a screenshot of the error for this?

Backrest is expected to skip calling init if it detects that the repo already exists https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest/blob/main/pkg/restic/restic.go#L93-L130

[garethgeorge]

Edit: just tested this behavior again on my install to confirm and was able to re-import an existing repo local-tank as local-tank2 using the same settings

[hunterbit]

I did another test and everything seems ok.
I must have done something wrong or there was a problem with the s3 server.
Thanks