From 1243721a7e6a11d1dd34e5388d45e3d0d609e81b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Jones <sumnerboy12@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 15:21:55 +1200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] add support for rest server backends

Backend configuration would be;

```
rest_repo:
  type: rest
  path: http://backup:8001/repo_name
```

Would result in the following env var;
```
RESTIC_REPOSITORY=rest:http://backup:8001/repo_name
```
---
 src/backend.ts | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/backend.ts b/src/backend.ts
index 3b9e81b..566f89e 100644
--- a/src/backend.ts
+++ b/src/backend.ts
@@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ export const getPathFromBackend = (backend: Backend): string => {
 		case 'gs':
 		case 's3':
 		case 'sftp':
-			return `${backend.type}:${backend.path}`
 		case 'rest':
-			throw new Error(`Unsupported backend type: "${backend.type}"`)
+			return `${backend.type}:${backend.path}`
 		default:
 			throw new Error(`Unknown backend type.`)
 	}

From 309073fe4de243348ef4bd7a394e462c9e5ad005 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Jones <sumnerboy12@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 23:26:31 +1200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update available.md

---
 docs/md/backend/available.md | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/md/backend/available.md b/docs/md/backend/available.md
index f911f15..1b4a1ce 100644
--- a/docs/md/backend/available.md
+++ b/docs/md/backend/available.md
@@ -48,4 +48,15 @@ backends:
     path: my-host:/remote/path/on/the/server
 ```
 
+## Rest Server
+
+See [here](https://github.com/restic/rest-server) for how to install a rest server backend and [here](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#rest-server) for further documentation.
+
+```yaml
+backends:
+  name-of-backend:
+    type: rest
+    path: http://localhost:8000/repo_name
+```
+
 > :ToCPrevNext