Kopia/Restic Notifications

A Cunning Plan

I just worked out that I can install restic in the kopia docker package which should at least help simplify things during testing.

apk add restic

so now have one minimal package with both applications using the same rclone config.

What could possibly go wrong?

Notification Programs

Name	Website	Comments
Promethus	link	monitoring system and time series database
Uptime Kuma	link	Available as a Docker package on Unraid. Can use its own notification system (includes Apprise, Home Assistant and Signal) and detect lots of different statuses.
Apprise	link	A wrapper for lots of services for sending notifications. Available as a Docker package on Unraid
Notifiarr	link	Sends notifications via Discord
Healthchecks	link	Simple and Effective Cron Job Monitoring
Shoutrrr	link	Notification library for gophers and their furry friends.
Howler	link	Log file monitor
Splunk	link	a Cisco company 😞
iGotify	link	Send notifications to the Gotify iPhone app.
Ntfy	link	send notifications to ntfy app via scripts from any computer
Slackbot	link	Create a slack bot

Backup Software

Kopia

root@kopia:/# kopia --version
20240713.0.0- build:  from:

Actions

Restic

root@kopia:/# restic version
restic 0.16.5 compiled with go1.22.5 on linux/amd64

I’ve been playing with a wrapper for restic called resticprofile. It lets you easily write a yaml script for restic, and includes scheduling and notifications via command hooks and http hooks.

resticprofile version
resticprofile version 0.27.1 commit eb130039b794e944223c7192673ccb04814347ca

My basic yaml is below (anything inside <> has been changed to protect my information).

version: "1"

default:
  repository: "rclone:backblaze:<repository>"
  password-file: "password.txt"

  backup:
    verbose: true
    source:
      - "/home/me"
      - "/var/www/"

    schedule: "22:00"

    send-before:
      - method: POST
        url: <link to uptime kuma>

    run-before: '<link to apprise>'

    run-after: '<link to apprise>'

    run-after-fail: '<link to apprise>'

Restic Profile

https://creativeprojects.github.io/resticprofile/

Restic Exporter

https://github.com/ngosang/restic-exporter

Restic Shell Script

https://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2020-04-15/migrating-to-restic-for-offsite-backups/

Restic Exit Codes

https://forum.restic.net/t/restic-example-gists/1751/2