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Restic REST-Server  – compared to the SFTP backend the REST backend has better performance especially so if you can skip additional crypto overhead by using plain HTTP transport (restic already properly encrypts all data it sends so using HTTPS is mostly about authentication)

root@pve-rest-server-01:~/rest-server# wget https://github.com/restic/rest-server/releases/download/v0.14.0/rest-server_0.14.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz

root@pve-rest-server-01:~/rest-server#

root@pve-rest-server-01:~/rest-server# tar -xvf rest-server_0.14.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz
rest-server_0.14.0_linux_amd64/CHANGELOG.md
rest-server_0.14.0_linux_amd64/LICENSE
rest-server_0.14.0_linux_amd64/README.md
rest-server_0.14.0_linux_amd64/rest-Server

root@pve-rest-server-01:~/rest-server/rest-server_0.14.0_linux_amd64# ls -la
total 9316
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 25 08:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 25 08:31 ..
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 20926 May 31 2025 CHANGELOG.md
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1421 May 31 2025 LICENSE
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 11634 May 31 2025 README.md
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 9486520 May 31 2025 rest-server

root@pve-rest-server-01:~/rest-server/rest-server_0.14.0_linux_amd64# chmod +x rest-Server

root@pve-rest-server-01:~/rest-server/rest-server_0.14.0_linux_amd64# ./rest-server –version
rest-server version rest-server 0.14.0 compiled with go1.24.3 on linux/amd64

root@pve-rest-server-01:~/rest-server/rest-server_0.14.0_linux_amd64#

root@pve-rest-server-01:~/rest-server/rest-server_0.14.0_linux_amd64# mv rest-server /usr/local/bin/

root@pve-rest-server-01:~/rest-server/rest-server_0.14.0_linux_amd64#

root@pve-rest-server-01:/usr/local/bin# ls -la
total 9276
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 25 08:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Apr 29 17:23 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9486520 May 31 2025 rest-server

root@pve-rest-server-01:/usr/local/bin#

root@pve-rest-server-01:~#
root@pve-rest-server-01:~# mkdir -p /mnt/USB-Stick-extern
root@pve-rest-server-01:~#
root@pve-rest-server-01:~# rest-server –path /mnt/USB-Stick-extern –no-auth
Data directory: /mnt/USB-Stick-extern
Authentication disabled
Append only mode disabled
Private repositories disabled
Group accessible repos disabled
start server on [::]:8000

root@rpi-iot-jsho-rslsync-01:~# restic -r rest:http://root:'<password>’@192.168.1.194:8000 init
enter password for new repository:
enter password again:
created restic repository a552e9d06a at rest:http://root:***@192.168.1.194:8000/

Please note that knowledge of your password is required to access
the repository. Losing your password means that your data is
irrecoverably lost.

root@rpi-iot-jsho-rslsync-01:~#

root@rpi-iot-jsho-rslsync-01:~# restic -r rest:http://root:'<password>’@192.168.1.194:8000 backup /resilio-sync.data/USB-Stick
enter password for repository:
repository a552e9d0 opened (version 2, compression level auto)
created new cache in /root/.cache/restic
no parent snapshot found, will read all files
[0:00] 0 index files loaded

Files: 20843 new, 0 changed, 0 unmodified
Dirs: 700 new, 0 changed, 0 unmodified
Added to the repository: 6.432 GiB (4.491 GiB stored)

processed 20843 files, 7.377 GiB in 2:56:31
snapshot 1f211ad1 saved

root@rpi-iot-jsho-rslsync-01:~#

To use ‚systemd‚ in Linux you primarily interact with it through the ‚systemctl‚ command line tool and  ‚systemd‚ is the system and service manager that initializes your OS components and manages background processes (referred to as units)

root@pve-rest-server-01: /etc/systemd/system# vi rest-server.service
[Unit]
Description=Rest Server
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/rest-server –path /mnt/USB-Stick-extern –no-auth –listen :8000
Restart=Always
User=root
Group=root

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

root@pve-rest-server-01:/etc/systemd/system# systemctl daemon-reload

root@pve-rest-server-01:/etc/systemd/system# systemctl enable rest-server

root@pve-rest-server-01:/etc/systemd/system# systemctl start rest-Server

root@pve-rest-server-01:/etc/systemd/system# systemctl status rest-Server
● rest-server.service – Rest Server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rest-server.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2026-09-25 19:09:33 UTC; 5min ago
Invocation: 801c5f0a9f844645b340de947890924c
Main PID: 2846 (rest-server)
Tasks: 6 (limit: 16700)
Memory: 1.7M (peak: 1.9M)
CPU: 21ms
CGroup: /system.slice/rest-server.service
└─2846 /usr/local/bin/rest-server –path /mnt/USB-Stick-extern –no-auth –listen :8000

Sep 25 19:09:33 pve-rest-server-01 systemd[1]: Started rest-server.service – Rest Server.
Sep 25 19:09:33 pve-rest-server-01 rest-server[2846]: Data directory: /mnt/USB-Stick-extern
Sep 25 19:09:33 pve-rest-server-01 rest-server[2846]: Authentication disabled
Sep 25 19:09:33 pve-rest-server-01 rest-server[2846]: Append only mode disabled
Sep 25 19:09:33 pve-rest-server-01 rest-server[2846]: Private repositories disabled
Sep 25 19:09:33 pve-rest-server-01 rest-server[2846]: Group accessible repos disabled
Sep 25 19:09:33 pve-rest-server-01 rest-server[2846]: start server on [::]:8000

root@pve-rest-server-01:/etc/systemd/system#