manual: Add hint about old default prefix

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Alexander Neumann 2017-11-20 22:32:32 +01:00
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@ -176,6 +176,15 @@ different location, so you need to create it using a different program.
Afterwards, the S3 server (``s3.amazonaws.com``) will redirect restic to
the correct endpoint.
Until version 0.8.0, restic used a default prefix of ``restic``, so the files
in the bucket were placed in a directory named ``restic``. If you want to
access a repository created with an older version of restic, specify the path
after the bucket name like this:
.. code-block:: console
$ restic -r s3:s3.amazonaws.com/bucket_name/restic [...]
For an S3-compatible server that is not Amazon (like Minio, see below),
or is only available via HTTP, you can specify the URL to the server
like this: ``s3:http://server:port/bucket_name``.