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+# Personal Restic config
+For this configuration, most files go in /etc/restic. Files should be owned by root, and use 0600 for permissions
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+Files that differ from this are:
+* /etc/restic/backup.sh needs 0700 permissions
+* restic.timer and restic.service go in /etc/systemd/system/ and use 0655 permissions
+