Backrest-Filen

Sample compose of Backrest using Filen as backend

Filen container

This is the default Filen docker container including the CLI version. On startup it tries to login using the provided credentials and starts a WebDAV server. This server is accessible only via the internal network restic-network

Backrest container

This is the default Backrest container config with a few additions. It is also part of the network restic-network and therefore has access to the WebDAV server. To make use of this, the provided rclone.conf can be used as is.

Alternatively it is possible to log into the container once started and run rclone config in order to set up another configuration. The provided password can only be changed this way since the rclone.conf only stores the password hashed.

Setup

• Make sure to provide the login credentials to the filen account in the .env file.

• Run docker compose up to start the stack.

• Within Backrest create a new Repo and use rclone:filen:restic as the URI (this expects a folder called restic on top level \\CloudDrive\restic\)

• Click Submit and the Repo should be added.