Announcement: New Features WebDAV and OpenDAL in upcoming rustic version

[simonsan]

Dear rustic and restic community,

The next rustic version, which will be released soon, will bring two major innovations.
On the one hand, we have integrated OpenDAL.
On the other hand, you can now spawn a WebDAV server with rustic webdav, which gives you access to the snapshots in your repository in the file browser.

To make sure that everything works properly with your configurations, please download rustic-nightly and test it with your use case.

OpenDAL? Tell me more!

OpenDAL is a data access layer that allows users to easily and efficiently retrieve data from various storage services in a unified way.
For rustic the integration of OpenDAL means, that we are supporting a wide range of backends now.

For example, S3 support has been added directly into rustic, as it seems very mature.
All other opendal supported services are available via the opendal:<SERVICE> syntax in the config file.
Services supported by OpenDAL and their current implementation status you can find here.

If you wanted to try out B2 for example, you can use opendal:b2 in the repository string and set the needed config options within the [repository.options] part of the rustic config file:

[repository]  
repository = "opendal:b2"

[repository.options]  
root = "..." # Set the work directory for backend  
key_id = "..." # B2 application key keyID  
application_key = "..." # B2 application key applicationKey  
bucket = "..." # B2 bucket name  
bucket_id = "..." # B2 bucket_id  

WebDAV

With rustic webdav you can spawn a WebDAV server to get access to your snapshots and their files via the file browser.
The config docs contain the settings you can use in the config to refine your experience.
And we have added an example configuration.

Debug

It may make sense to run rustic with debug flags enabled via:

[global]  
log-level = "debug"  

Please let us know if you experience anything unusual.

Cheers,
the rustic Maintainers

[kapitainsky]

I am trying rustic webdav. All defaults without dedicated section in toml file.

$ ~/Temp/rustic-nightly/rustic --version
rustic v0.6.1-53-ga6ec356-nightly

$ ~/Temp/rustic-nightly/rustic snapshots
[INFO] using config ./rustic.toml
[INFO] repository rclone:OD01-ENC:restic-test: password is correct.
[INFO] using cache at /Users/kptsky/Library/Caches/rustic/xxxxxxxxx

snapshots for (host [kp-laptop.local], label [], paths [/])
| ID       | Time                | Host            | Label | Tags        | Paths | Files |  Dirs |     Size |
|----------|---------------------|-----------------|-------|-------------|-------|-------|-------|----------|
| 2bc5f01c | 2023-12-31 20:44:27 | kp-laptop.local |       | test_rustic | /     | 47159 | 28990 | 28.9 GiB |
| 1dcc6ab7 | 2024-01-28 09:12:15 | kp-laptop.local |       | test_rustic | /     | 59945 | 32569 | 31.6 GiB |
| 6fa4307a | 2024-01-30 08:05:13 | kp-laptop.local |       | test_rustic | /     | 59887 | 32596 | 31.7 GiB |
| 2690ada9 | 2024-01-31 04:41:52 | kp-laptop.local |       | test_rustic | /     | 59087 | 32620 | 31.7 GiB |
| f2c0df87 | 2024-01-31 15:09:11 | kp-laptop.local |       | test_rustic | /     | 59147 | 32624 | 31.8 GiB |
5 snapshot(s)

total: 5 snapshot(s)


$ ~/Temp/rustic-nightly/rustic webdav
[INFO] using config ./rustic.toml
[INFO] repository rclone:OD01-ENC:restic-test: password is correct.
[INFO] using cache at /Users/kptsky/Library/Caches/rustic/xxxxxxxxxxxx
[00:00:01] reading index...               ████████████████████████████████████████          9/9
[INFO] Server::run; addr=[::1]:8000
[INFO] listening on http://[::1]:8000

# there is no content at all
$ curl -L  http://[::1]:8000

But when I go to http://[::1]:8000 in my browser I see empty page... so something is listening on port 8000 but does not produce any content.

What am I doing wrong?

[kapitainsky]

problem with macFUSE is that it is kernel extension (kext) on macOS and Apple is moving step by step into killing any 3rd parties there. FUSE-T runs in user space using macOS NFS server.

[aawsome]

Thanks for your feedback @kapitainsky - I think we should add a message like "please open or mount the served webdav using something like dav://localhost:8000". Unfortunately the last two [INFO] message come from the http server framework we are using, so nothing under our control..

I wouldn't try to open something directly - this makes it again very much platform dependent and users may have different preferences. But adding some text to the docu that users have to manually open/mount the webdav service may be also good!

[kapitainsky]

dav://localhost:8000 does not work on macOS neither:)

You just have to mount http://[::1]:8000 from Finder.

[simonsan]

Note about WebDAV mounting: rustic-rs/docs#57

[kapitainsky]

as a Mac user, could you do us the favour, and open an issue with https://github.com/cberner/fuser/issues

Here you are:

cberner/fuser#273