From 2a47da8804952341e0084fe0dae43cf2d7a34440 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Hahn Axel (hahn)" <axel.hahn@iml.unibe.ch>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 09:38:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] save space: --no-cache and verbose
---
docs/30_Configuration/30_Filetransfer.md | 13 +++++++++----
docs/30_Configuration/50_File_transfer.job.md | 3 ++-
jobs/transfer.job.dist | 3 ++-
plugins/transfer/restic.sh | 14 +++++++++++++-
4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/30_Configuration/30_Filetransfer.md b/docs/30_Configuration/30_Filetransfer.md
index 6902206..c0a0386 100644
--- a/docs/30_Configuration/30_Filetransfer.md
+++ b/docs/30_Configuration/30_Filetransfer.md
@@ -114,11 +114,16 @@ If your /root partition has a limited size and/ or you have a lot of files
`restic_cachedir = [full path]`
-The default verbose of IML backup for restic is 2. During file transfer
-this shows unchanged/ new/ deleted files. Change it to a less value
-to generate less log data.
+Restic by default stores file indexes locally. To save space in `restic_cachedir`
+you can disable the file index but the backup will run much slower.
-`restic_verbose = 2`
+`restic_nochache = false`
+
+The default verbose of IML backup for restic is 0.
+If you want to see unchanged/ new/ deleted files set it to "2". But This generates
+larger logs in [installdir]/logs/.
+
+`restic_verbose = 0`
A file transfer can be tagged. Each restic backup gets a defined tag
diff --git a/docs/30_Configuration/50_File_transfer.job.md b/docs/30_Configuration/50_File_transfer.job.md
index c02b4b2..9ee46da 100644
--- a/docs/30_Configuration/50_File_transfer.job.md
+++ b/docs/30_Configuration/50_File_transfer.job.md
@@ -247,8 +247,9 @@ bin = restic.
```text
# use another cache directory than /root/.cache/restic
restic_cachedir =
+restic_nocache = false
-restic_verbose = 2
+restic_verbose = 0
restic_tag = imlbackup
restic_mountpoint = /mnt/restore
diff --git a/jobs/transfer.job.dist b/jobs/transfer.job.dist
index 4e5dfbd..06ee1b9 100644
--- a/jobs/transfer.job.dist
+++ b/jobs/transfer.job.dist
@@ -139,8 +139,9 @@ duplicity_cachedir =
# use another cache directory than /root/.cache/restic
restic_cachedir =
+restic_nocache = false
-restic_verbose = 2
+restic_verbose = 0
restic_tag = imlbackup
restic_mountpoint = /mnt/restore
diff --git a/plugins/transfer/restic.sh b/plugins/transfer/restic.sh
index dba32a6..004490f 100644
--- a/plugins/transfer/restic.sh
+++ b/plugins/transfer/restic.sh
@@ -58,8 +58,20 @@
}
# return a string with backup parameters that will be added to defaults
function t_getParamBackup(){
+ local _tag
+ local _nocacheFlag
+
# tagging
- echo -n --tag $( _j_getvar ${STORAGEFILE} "${CFGPREFIX}tag" )
+ _tag=$( _j_getvar ${STORAGEFILE} "${CFGPREFIX}tag" )
+ if [ "$_tag" != "" ]; then
+ echo -n "--tag $_tag "
+ fi
+
+ # no cache ... to create smaller local cache dirs, but backup 3 times slower
+ _nocacheFlag=$( _j_getvar ${STORAGEFILE} "${CFGPREFIX}nocache" )
+ if [ "$_nocacheFlag" != "" ] && [ "$_nocacheFlag" != "0" ] && [ "$_nocacheFlag" != "false" ]; then
+ echo -n "--no-cache "
+ fi
}
# return a cli parameter for a single exlude directory
--
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