Restic backup script simple (fresco fresco callo callo)

 ### backupscript.sh

export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=sftp:administrator@172.16.7.1:/e:/resticroot ##this is a windows sftp server

export RESTIC_PASSWORD=passwordstring

restic --verbose backup /srv

if [ $? -ne 0 ]

then

  sed -i '1s/^/Subject: restic error\n/' /root/restic_jobs/transcript.log

  cat /root/restic_jobs/transcript.log | ssmtp -vvv email@provider.com

fi

restic --verbose forget --keep-last 2 --prune

        if [ $? -ne 0 ]

then

sed -i '1s/^/Subject: restic error\n/' /root/restic_jobs/transcript.log

cat /root/restic_jobs/transcript.log | ssmtp -vvv email@provider.com

fi

#### ssmtp.conf

#

# Config file for sSMTP sendmail

#

# The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000

# Make this empty to disable rewriting.

root=postmaster

# The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required no

# MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.com

#mailhub=mail

# Where will the mail seem to come from?

#rewriteDomain=

# The full hostname

hostname=HOSTNAME.locallab

# Are users allowed to set their own From: address?

# YES - Allow the user to specify their own From: address

# NO - Use the system generated From: address

#FromLineOverride=YES

mailhub=smtp.server.com:587

useSTARTTLS=YES

AuthUser=sender@provider.com

AuthPass=passwordstring

TLS_CA_File=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt

### it was a gmail with app password

### crontab entry

0 21 * * * /root/restic_jobs/backupscript.sh > /root/restic_jobs/transcript.log 2>&1