restic2influx

Parse Restic status output and feed summary to influx db.

As a bonus, the program also shows the progress of the backup in the process list:

$ ( restic backup --json -r /path/to/backup /path/to/MyMusic | restic2influx -s MyMusic grafana http://influxsrv:8086 ) &

$ ps auwwf | grep restic
 18:06 0:01  |  restic backup --json -r /path/to/backup /path/to/MyMusic
 18:06 0:01  |  \_ restic2influx MyMusic [Done: 53.31% ETA: 04-09 18:07 Files: 8.452 MBytes: 149]

Usage

$ restic backup --json <restic backup options> | restic2influx [-d] [-v] [-s] <restic repository> <influx db> [influx host]

-s, --status[=N] additionally send status information to influxdb every N seconds (default 30) during the backup job
-v, --verbose    print summary and other info to stdout
-d, --debug      output debug info, do not send data to influxdb
-u, --user       influxdb basic auth user
-p, --password   influxdb basic auth password

'influx host' defaults to http://localhost:8086 if omitted

Before using it, you need to install some non-core libraries, i.e. on Debian systems simply execute: apt-get install libjson-perl libinfluxdb-lineprotocol-perl libwww-perl libtext-unidecode-perl.

Grafana

With Grafana one can realize beautiful diagrams of the data, feel free to download dashboard example and modify it according to your needs:

Credits

• Forum user griffon implemented a similar approach using jq.

• Similiar Grafana dashboards by dmatt and Alexander using runrestic.

• Autorestic might be helpful as well.