{"slug":"restic","title":"restic","summary":"Install, configure, operate, secure, automate, tune, troubleshoot, and recover restic backups across local, SFTP, S3-compatible, cloud, and REST backends. Use when creating or managing a restic repository, designing backup or retention policy, validating restores, handling reposi","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-12T11:14:58.832223Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/magnus919/agent-skills","stars":96,"forks":9,"license":"MIT","updatedAt":"2026-09-25T05:53:13Z"},"bodyHtml":"<h1>Restic skill</h1>\n<p>Operate encrypted, deduplicated backups with a recovery-first workflow. This skill helps an agent turn a collection of restic commands into an operational backup practice: safe setup, clear retention, evidence-backed health checks, and restore drills.</p>\n<h2>Why Install This Skill</h2>\n<p>A backup is only useful when it can be found, decrypted, and restored under pressure. Restic is deliberately simple, but its consequences are not: a lost password is unrecoverable, an accidental prune can change the recovery window, and a green backup job does not prove that a restore will work.</p>\n<p>This skill gives your agent a portable operating procedure for local and remote restic repositories. It separates general restic behavior from backend-specific configuration, keeps credentials out of artifacts, and makes restore validation part of normal operations instead of a crisis-only task.</p>\n<h2>What You Get</h2>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Resource</th>\n<th>Purpose</th>\n</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><code>SKILL.md</code></td>\n<td>Discovery-first operating contract and routing guide</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>references/</code></td>\n<td>Deep guidance for setup, backends, automation, security, recovery, tuning, and incident diagnosis</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>templates/</code></td>\n<td>Non-secret backup policy, restore drill, and systemd scheduling examples</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>scripts/restic-preflight.sh</code></td>\n<td>Read-only local configuration check that redacts secrets</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>scripts/restic-verify.sh</code></td>\n<td>Bounded metadata or data-read verification wrapper</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>scripts/test-restic-preflight.sh</code></td>\n<td>Deterministic script test without a live repository</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>scripts/test-restic-verify.sh</code></td>\n<td>Deterministic verification-wrapper test without a live repository</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td><code>evals/evals.json</code></td>\n<td>Three safety-sensitive scenarios for regression evaluation</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<h2>Quick Start</h2>\n<p>Install <code>restic</code> with your platform package manager or an official release, then configure a repository location and a protected password source:</p>\n<pre><code>export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/path/to/repository\nexport RESTIC_PASSWORD_FILE=/secure/path/restic-password\n# Do not export a literal RESTIC_PASSWORD; use a protected file or secret command.\nrestic init\nrestic backup /data --tag files\nrestic snapshots\n</code></pre>\n<p>Before relying on the backup, restore it to a separate empty directory and inspect the result:</p>\n<pre><code>restic restore latest --target /var/tmp/restic-restore-test\n</code></pre>\n<h2>Triggers</h2>\n<p>Use this skill when you need to install restic, initialize or choose a repository backend, automate backups, define snapshot retention, diagnose locks or failed jobs, test recovery, harden repository access, tune performance, or copy/migrate a repository.</p>\n<h2>Requirements</h2>\n<p>A <code>restic</code> binary is required. Live repository operations require repository access plus a password mechanism. Remote backends also require their own credentials, network access, and any provider-specific permissions. The skill does not create cloud accounts, bypass access controls, or store secrets for you.</p>\n","files":[{"path":"evals/evals.json","sizeBytes":3375,"isText":true},{"path":"README.md","sizeBytes":2865,"isText":true},{"path":"references/backup-design-and-automation.md","sizeBytes":4916,"isText":true},{"path":"references/foundations-and-installation.md","sizeBytes":4341,"isText":true},{"path":"references/performance-and-observability.md","sizeBytes":4289,"isText":true},{"path":"references/repository-and-backends.md","sizeBytes":5247,"isText":true},{"path":"references/retention-integrity-and-recovery.md","sizeBytes":4387,"isText":true},{"path":"references/scripting-and-command-contract.md","sizeBytes":4800,"isText":true},{"path":"references/security-and-threat-model.md","sizeBytes":4740,"isText":true},{"path":"references/source-index.md","sizeBytes":3705,"isText":true},{"path":"references/troubleshooting-and-migration.md","sizeBytes":6348,"isText":true},{"path":"scripts/restic-preflight.sh","sizeBytes":1867,"isText":true},{"path":"scripts/restic-verify.sh","sizeBytes":2095,"isText":true},{"path":"scripts/test-restic-preflight.sh","sizeBytes":1020,"isText":true},{"path":"scripts/test-restic-verify.sh","sizeBytes":863,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":7335,"isText":true},{"path":"templates/backup-policy.env.example","sizeBytes":936,"isText":false},{"path":"templates/restore-drill.md","sizeBytes":924,"isText":true},{"path":"templates/systemd/restic-backup.service","sizeBytes":473,"isText":false},{"path":"templates/systemd/restic-backup.timer","sizeBytes":236,"isText":false}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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