Adam Porter

@EugenMayer FYI, if you happen to be running Restic locally, my `restic-runner` script optionally outputs the change in repository size after a backup run. It's helped me catch several times...

Just ran into this myself. One of my most important directories is a symlink in my homedir that points to the real directory deeper in my homedir tree. Thankfully I...

> You should pay attention to how exclude patterns may differ for the two directories (what happens if I exclude ~/.config and include ~/allmyimportantthings which happens to point to a...

> I'm of the impression that having an option to dereference symlinks causes a lot more problems and corner cases that need to be handled in the code, unfortunately. You...

Any feedback from the devs on this idea? It would be very nice. For example, I just discovered that a program I build from git checkouts has been creating enormous...

@dnnr See https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1550#issuecomment-358536554 However, I don't follow you here. Removing data from old snapshots is definitely a distinct operation and should have its own command. Something like: ``` restic purge...

@dnnr > Well, I left out the step where you'd delete the source snapshot afterwards (using forget, then maybe prune) , because I thought that was obvious. It's definitely not...

> Well, in a sense, modifying the contents of a snapshot is creating a new snapshot (because it's not the same snapshot as before). Think git commit --amend, which creates...

I agree: deleting files from snapshots is important, as it's very easy to accidentally backup files that one didn't intend to. This is often necessary for both security and disk-usage...

> With this feature #ResticKillsRansomware In general, pull-oriented backups (as opposed to push-oriented ones) solve ransomware, right? :)