Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@knopki
Created November 15, 2025 17:12
Show Gist options
  • Select an option

  • Save knopki/7c9b96eb060ce64a9fdf92ca355d6c7f to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.

Select an option

Save knopki/7c9b96eb060ce64a9fdf92ca355d6c7f to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Poor man's copy with re-chunking for restic
#! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
#! nix-shell -i python -p bash restic bubblewrap jq
import json
import logging
import os
import shlex
import subprocess
import sys
import time
from datetime import datetime
from pathlib import Path
from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory
logging.basicConfig(
level=logging.DEBUG,
format="%(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s",
datefmt="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
)
logger = logging.getLogger()
# logger.setLevel(level=logging.DEBUG)
USERNAME = "sk"
HOST = "alien"
S3_ENV = "/run/secrets/restic-domashka-env"
RESTIC_PACK_SIZE = 128
RESTIC_PASSWORD_FILE = os.environ["RESTIC_PASSWORD_FILE"]
RESTIC_REPOSITORY_FROM = os.environ["RESTIC_REPOSITORY_FROM"]
RESTIC_REPOSITORY_TO = os.environ["RESTIC_REPOSITORY_TO"]
RESTIC_READ_CONCURRENCY = "8"
GODEBUG = "asyncpreemptoff=1"
def populate_env() -> None:
for line in Path(S3_ENV).read_text().splitlines():
k, v = line.split("=", 2)
os.environ[k] = v
os.environ["RESTIC_PASSWORD_FILE"] = RESTIC_PASSWORD_FILE
os.environ["RESTIC_PACK_SIZE"] = str(RESTIC_PACK_SIZE)
os.environ["RESTIC_READ_CONCURRENCY"] = RESTIC_READ_CONCURRENCY
os.environ["GODEBUG"] = GODEBUG
os.environ["LANG"] = "C"
os.environ["LC_ALL"] = "C"
def mount_source(mountpoint: str):
command = shlex.split(
f"restic -r {shlex.quote(RESTIC_REPOSITORY_FROM)} mount {shlex.quote(mountpoint)}"
)
return subprocess.Popen(
command,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
# shell=True,
)
def list_snapshots():
command = shlex.split(
f"restic -r {shlex.quote(RESTIC_REPOSITORY_FROM)} snapshots --json"
)
proc = subprocess.run(command, capture_output=True, check=True)
return json.loads(proc.stdout.decode())
def mk_wrapper_command(root: str, paths: list[str]):
command = ["bwrap", "--bind", "/", "/"]
if len(paths) == 1:
command += ["--bind", root, paths[0]]
else:
for p in paths:
command += ["--bind", root + p, p]
command += ["--"]
return command
def backup(root: str, snapshot):
# snap_time = datetime.strptime(snapshot["time"], "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.f%z")
snap_time = datetime.fromisoformat(snapshot["time"])
snap_paths = snapshot["paths"]
snap_root = Path(root) / "ids" / snapshot["short_id"]
logger.info(
"Processing snapshot ID=%s, DT=%s, PATHS=%s",
snapshot["short_id"],
snap_time,
",".join(snap_paths),
)
command = (
mk_wrapper_command(str(snap_root), snap_paths)
+ ["restic", "-r", RESTIC_REPOSITORY_TO, "backup"]
+ ["--ignore-ctime", "--ignore-inode", "--no-scan"]
+ ["--host", HOST, "--tag", "imported"]
+ ["--time", snap_time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")]
# + ["-n"]
+ snap_paths
)
logger.debug(f"Run: {' '.join(command)}")
subprocess.run(command, stdout=sys.stdout, stderr=sys.stderr, check=True)
def main():
populate_env()
logger.debug("List snapshots")
snapshots = list_snapshots()
logger.info("Found %s snapshots", len(snapshots))
len(snapshots)
with TemporaryDirectory() as tmp_dir:
logger.debug("Mount source repository")
mount_proc = mount_source(tmp_dir)
while len(list(Path(tmp_dir).iterdir())) == 0:
logger.debug("Wait when source repository is ready")
time.sleep(1)
try:
for snapshot in snapshots:
backup(tmp_dir, snapshot)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
pass
except Exception as e:
logger.error(e)
finally:
logger.debug("Terminate source repository mount process")
mount_proc.terminate()
mount_proc.wait(timeout=60)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment