Need Help Setting Up Borgmatic

kiekar

Hello,

I followed the tutorial on setting up borgmatic found in the 3rd party apps section in mailcow documentation.

I created the docker-compose.override.yml file in the root folder of mailcow-dockerized.

Then I created the config.yaml file in data/config/borgmatic/etc/ found below but when running
docker-compose exec borgmatic-mailcow borgmatic init –encryption repokey-blake2 I receive error below.

How can I resolve this issue. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

`source mailcow.conf
cat <<EOF > data/conf/borgmatic/etc/config.yaml
source_directories:
- /mnt/source
repositories:
- path: /media/backup
label: local
exclude_patterns:
- ‘/mnt/source/postfix/public/’
- ‘/mnt/source/postfix/private/’
- ‘/mnt/source/rspamd/rspamd.sock’

keep_hourly: 24
keep_daily: 7
keep_weekly: 4
keep_monthly: 6

mysql_databases:
- name: ${DBNAME}
username: ${DBUSER}
password: ${DBPASS}
options: –default-character-set=utf8mb4
EOF
/etc/borgmatic/config.yaml /etc/borgmatic.d /root/.config/borgmatic/config.yaml /root/.config/borgmatic.d: No valid configuration files found

summary:
/etc/borgmatic.d/config.yaml: Error parsing configuration file
An error occurred while parsing a configuration file at /etc/borgmatic.d/config.yaml:
did not find expected <document start>
in “<unicode string>”, line 23, column 1
/etc/borgmatic/config.yaml /etc/borgmatic.d /root/.config/borgmatic/config.yaml /root/.config/borgmatic.d: No valid configuration files found

Need some help? https://torsion.org/borgmatic/#issues
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accolon

The step to create config.yaml requires you to enter two commands, not just copying the contents of the textbox into the file. The tutorial requires some attention here.

First, run source mailcow.conf.

Then, copy the whole part beginning with cat <<EOF > data/conf/borgmatic/etc/config.yaml over and run it as well.

This creates the config.yaml file, replacing the variables with your database username and password.

kiekar

Thanks for your replay,

accolon First, run source mailcow.conf

Not sure if I’m going about it the right way. I deleted all the text in the yaml file except for source mailcow.conf

I then ran docker-compose exec borgmatic-mailcow borgmatic init –encryption repokey-blake2 with output below.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/borgmatic", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) ^^^^^^ File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/borgmatic/commands/borgmatic.py", line 844, in main configs, parse_logs = load_configurations( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/borgmatic/commands/borgmatic.py", line 513, in load_configurations configs[config_filename], parse_logs = validate.parse_configuration( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/borgmatic/config/validate.py", line 113, in parse_configuration constants.apply_constants(config, config.get('constants') if config else {}) ^^^^^^^^^^ AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get'

accolon

No, you don’t have to put the commands into the config.yaml file.

Just run them on the command line. The source command reads the mailcow config, the cat command then creates the yaml file automatically.

kiekar

Thanks, That worked