Revisiting My Automated Linux Backups With Restic

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:31:03 -0600

Last year, I wrote about how I automate my Linux backups with Restic and B2. Tl;dr, I used a shell script to automate creating my backups and sending them to Backblaze B2. The script runs via a Systemd timer and uses Helthchecks.io to alert me if something goes ary. A lot of what I describe in that original post still applies to the new setup, so be sure to check that post out before continuing with this one if you want all of the details of how that original setup worked.

How I Automate Backblaze B2 Backups with Restic on Linux

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Update

I’ve since made a number of updates to this setup to better align with the way my needs have changed. I highly recommend checkout out that post to see how I’m currently doing my Linux backups.

It has now been a few months since I wrote on my photography blog about finally removing Microsoft Windows from my photography workflow. Being that I was already a very heavy user of Linux who only really used Windows on one machine to run the Adobe suite, this has been a pretty painless transition for me. Beyond having to figure out how to make my Photography workflow function under Linux (which is still an ongoing process), I had pretty much everything figured out.

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Revisiting My Automated Linux Backups With Restic

How I Automate Backblaze B2 Backups with Restic on Linux