Let's say you have a server exposed on the internet. You would like to backup this server to a machine on your local network and you don't mind configuring port forwarding on your router. This article describes just how to do that.

Let's say you have a server exposed on the internet. You would like to backup this server to a machine on your local network but you don't want to configure port forwarding on your router. This article describes just how to do that.

In this article I describe how I run restic to backup my systems. I illustrate this with a special use case: backing up files with special permissions.