Encryption
“The design might not be perfect, but it’s good. Encryption is a first-class feature, the implementation looks sane and I guess the deduplication trade-off is worth it. So… I’m going to use restic for my personal backups.” Filippo Valsorda
Manage repository keys
The key
command allows you to set multiple access keys or passwords
per repository. In fact, you can use the list
, add
, remove
, and
passwd
(changes a password) sub-commands to manage these keys very precisely:
$ restic -r /srv/restic-repo key list
enter password for repository:
ID User Host Created
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*eb78040b username kasimir 2015-08-12 13:29:57
$ restic -r /srv/restic-repo key add
enter password for repository:
enter password for new key:
enter password again:
saved new key as <Key of username@kasimir, created on 2015-08-12 13:35:05.316831933 +0200 CEST>
$ restic -r /srv/restic-repo key list
enter password for repository:
ID User Host Created
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5c657874 username kasimir 2015-08-12 13:35:05
*eb78040b username kasimir 2015-08-12 13:29:57
Note that the currently used key is indicated by an asterisk (*
).