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You could use one of those services that expect a regular http heartbeat. I'm personally using uptimerobot for that. Within a .bat or .sh file, add a restic

• Saris 4y ago
  I've tinkered with that using healthchecks, but I don't really trust that I know what I'm doing when setting it up. Restic is also confusing to me with forgetting snapshots and doing cleanup, I don't understand why that isn't run as part of the backup (or is it? The docs aren't clear).
  • deckard1 4y ago
    no, you have to run "restic forget" with the policy you want (keep last X, last monthly Y, etc.) followed up with a "restic prune". Or you can pass "--prune" to the "forget" command I think. You don't always want to forget/prune snapshots. Especially if you're using a cloud service like B2. It can easily cost you more to prune than actual storage costs if you're not careful. See here: https://www.seanh.cc/2022/04/03/restic/#maintaining-your-backup https://www.seanh.cc/2022/04/03/restic/#maintaining-your-bac... and https://kdecherf.com/blog/2018/12/28/restic-and-backblaze-b2-short-cost-analysis-of-prune-operations/ https://kdecherf.com/blog/2018/12/28/restic-and-backblaze-b2...
    • Saris 4y ago
      Thanks for the links! That's helpful, the part about B2 makes sense.