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title: "Restic With Wasabi"
slug: "how-do-i-use-restic-with-wasabi"
updated: 2026-05-30T23:26:28Z
published: 2026-05-30T23:26:28Z
---

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# Restic With Wasabi

[Restic](https://restic.github.io/) is certified for use with Wasabi. To configure this product for use with Wasabi, please follow the config example below:

wasabi:qa wasabi$ unset HISTFILE

wasabi:qa wasabi$ export RESTIC_REPOSITORY="s3:https://s3.wasabisys.com/your-bucket-name”

wasabi:qa wasabi$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="your-Wasabi-Access-Key”

wasabi:qa wasabi$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="your-Wasasbi-Secret-Key”

wasabi:qa wasabi$ export RESTIC_PASSWORD="your-preferred-pw-for-restic”

wasabi:qa wasabi$ restic init created restic backend 112e5d8b1a at s3:https://s3.wasabisys.com/your-bucket-name

Note that this example discusses the use of Wasabi's us-east-1 storage region. To use other Wasabi storage regions, please use the appropriate Wasabi service URL as described in this [article](https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/what-are-the-service-urls-for-wasabis-different-storage-regions).