Alexander Neumann

I'm going to reopen this issue.

I'm curious: Does other backup software typically have such an option?

**Please don't work on this feature for now, I'd like to rework the archiver code first. Thanks.** I'd like to try again and explain my reservations in regards to the...

Hey, thanks for leaving an issue and describing your use case. We'll keep this in mind for later, unfortunately lowering the average block size has other downsides, the most important...

I like the suggestion, we should document this on a rather abstract level, i.e. "`restic snapshots` lists all files in the `snapshots/` dir, then reads each file". This hides the...

I've seen what duplicacy does, but I have a hard time understanding how to apply this to restic without changing the repository format completely (and basically doing exactly what duplicacy...

I'll need to think about this, but I like the general direction. We can certainly options so that an index file is able to mark pack files as deprecated. The...

That's why restic does not simply check for locks, creates a new lock and is done, the process is a bit more complicated, starting here: https://github.com/restic/restic/blob/c40002246d3804555073d7c6679a487acf8012fd/internal/restic/lock.go#L81 It checks for other...

Thanks for all the suggestions! I feel this is a productive discussion which will (eventually) result in an implementation :) > I made a suggestion which would remove the need...

@gebi Thanks for the additional information. I think I understood what you've proposed, I need to think about this for a bit. Would you mind confirming that @ifedorenko's summary (thanks!)...