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Not OP, but this is my script: https://gist.github.com/smj-edison/33229537007a73520a26a14a0...

It's been cobbled together over the years to add things I want, like not backing up on battery, or sending a desktop message on success. When I set it up I couldn't figure out how to set up a timer, so it runs when I wake from suspend. I'd probably use a systemd timer in the future though.

I also should probably snapshot my file system before backing up since I'm running btrfs, but I never figured out how to do that either, and this works, lol.

I use restic as well. My script:

https://forge.taf.codes/taf/snippets/src/branch/main/backups...

Restic + rclone personally, with a wrapper script to glue things together nicely

What's the advantage of additionally using rclone vs. just restic?

Mostly because it allows decoupling authentication to a given remote, away from restic. easier to use `rclone:remote:folder` than needing to provide a remote + a separate set of env vars to authenticate with that remote.

Not an issue in most languages, but I'm using bash, so its more of a bother.

rclone on a cron job