Setup Restic for GitHub Actions

Setup Restic on GitHub Actions to use restic.

This action installs Restic for use in actions by installing it on tool cache using AnimMouse/tool-cache.

This action is implemented as a composite action.

With this action, you can now manipulate your Restic repository like check or prune on GitHub Actions.

Usage

To use restic, run this action before restic.

Use secrets for repository

1. Paste Restic repository to RESTIC_REPOSITORY secret.
2. Paste Restic repository password to RESTIC_PASSWORD secret.

steps:
  - name: Setup Restic
    uses: AnimMouse/setup-restic@v1
    
  - run: restic check
    env:
      RESTIC_REPOSITORY: ${{ secrets.RESTIC_REPOSITORY }}
      RESTIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.RESTIC_PASSWORD }}

Use workflow dispatch inputs for repository

1. Add restic-repository workflow dispatch input on your workflow.
2. Paste Restic repository password to RESTIC_PASSWORD secret.

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      restic-repository:
        description: Restic repository
        required: true
        default: rest:http://host:8000

steps:
  - name: Setup Restic
    uses: AnimMouse/setup-restic@v1
    
  - run: restic check
    env:
      RESTIC_REPOSITORY: ${{ inputs.restic-repository }}
      RESTIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.RESTIC_PASSWORD }}

Use plain env input for repository

1. Paste Restic repository to RESTIC_REPOSITORY: environment variable.
2. Paste Restic repository password to RESTIC_PASSWORD secret.

steps:
  - name: Setup Restic
    uses: AnimMouse/setup-restic@v1
    
  - run: restic check
    env:
      RESTIC_REPOSITORY: rest:http://host:8000
      RESTIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.RESTIC_PASSWORD }}

Environment variable based repositories

S3 example

1. Paste AWS access key ID to AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID secret.
2. Paste AWS secret access key to AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY secret.

steps:
  - name: Setup Restic
    uses: AnimMouse/setup-restic@v1
    
  - run: restic check
    env:
      RESTIC_REPOSITORY: ${{ secrets.RESTIC_REPOSITORY }}
      RESTIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.RESTIC_PASSWORD }}
      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}

B2 example

1. Paste B2 account ID to B2_ACCOUNT_ID secret.
2. Paste B2 account key to B2_ACCOUNT_KEY secret.

steps:
  - name: Setup Restic
    uses: AnimMouse/setup-restic@v1
    
  - run: restic check
    env:
      RESTIC_REPOSITORY: ${{ secrets.RESTIC_REPOSITORY }}
      RESTIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.RESTIC_PASSWORD }}
      B2_ACCOUNT_ID: ${{ secrets.B2_ACCOUNT_ID }}
      B2_ACCOUNT_KEY: ${{ secrets.B2_ACCOUNT_KEY }}

For other environment variable based repositories, you can use other variables, just follow the S3 and B2 examples.

Rclone

You can use AnimMouse/setup-rclone in order to use Rclone on Restic.

steps:
  - name: Setup Rclone
    uses: AnimMouse/setup-rclone@v1
    with:
      rclone_config: ${{ secrets.RCLONE_CONFIG }}
      
  - name: Setup Restic
    uses: AnimMouse/setup-restic@v1
    
  - run: restic check
    env:
      RESTIC_REPOSITORY: ${{ secrets.RESTIC_REPOSITORY }}
      RESTIC_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.RESTIC_PASSWORD }}

Specific version

You can specify the version you want. By default, this action downloads the latest version if version is not specified.

steps:
  - name: Setup Restic
    uses: AnimMouse/setup-restic@v1
    with:
      version: 0.14.0

GitHub token

This action automatically uses a GitHub token in order to authenticate with GitHub API and avoid rate limiting. You can also specify your own read-only fine-grained personal access token.

steps:
  - name: Setup Restic
    uses: AnimMouse/setup-restic@v1
    with:
      token: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }}