Using restic+rclone

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i am in need for a backup for my wsl ubuntu vm.
i have decided on restic+rclone

i have noticed these posts
use restic along with rclone ... Its how I backup my laptop.
Here is what I use for backing up

--- for now, just looking to backup my home dir
--- the script mentioned in the above link, is from 2019,
--- so i am looking for any advice and scripts.
thanks,
jojo

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so i guess no replies so far.

in the end, i decided to use restic, without rclone.
as i already have a python script that create a VSS snapshot, and that snapshot becomes the source for 7zip, fastcopy.

as with veeam, i prefer to have local backup servers and repositories.
and rclone that to the cloud

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Just starting to check out Restic and I was wondering why you didn't use the "rclone+restic" integration as noted in the Rclone documentation, instead of taking the backup with Restic first, then separately using Rclone to upload the backup files to the cloud?

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well, i have a script that runs all my backups.
for each backup, it creates vss snapshot and executes a list of command against that source.
so restic is just another app, such as 7za, fastcopy and rclone.

rclone and restic are very flexible, many ways to get it done.

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Thanks, that makes sense. As I've been digging in, I'm also seeing that there is a lot of flexibility in how to use these tools.