Scripting¶
This is a list of how certain tasks may be accomplished when you use restic via scripts.
Check if a repository is already initialized¶
You may find a need to check if a repository is already initialized,
perhaps to prevent your script from initializing a repository multiple
times. The command snapshots
may be used for this purpose:
$ restic -r /srv/restic-repo snapshots
Fatal: unable to open config file: Stat: stat /srv/restic-repo/config: no such file or directory
Is there a repository at the following location?
/srv/restic-repo
If a repository does not exist, restic will return a non-zero exit code
and print an error message. Note that restic will also return a non-zero
exit code if a different error is encountered (e.g.: incorrect password
to snapshots
) and it may print a different error message. If there
are no errors, restic will return a zero exit code and print all the
snapshots.