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restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. It supports the three major operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows) and a few smaller ones (FreeBSD, OpenBSD).

What's new in 0.19.1

Changelog for restic 0.19.1 (2026-07-05) The following sections list the changes in restic 0.19.1 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary - Fix #5234: Prevent mounting over the repository directory - Fix #5667: Skip inaccessible backup source paths - Fix #5722: Update mount latest symlink after snapshot reload - Fix #21866: Hide stats progress bar in JSON mode - Fix #21869: Restore old behavior of snapshots --latest <n> without --group-by - Fix #21876: Show timezone location in snapshots output - Fix #21879: Prevent crash in mountpoint validation if mountpoint is inaccessible - Fix #21895: Remove read-only files via the SFTP backend on Windows servers - Fix #21899: Make backup respect excludes for duplicate directory entries Details - Bugfix #5234: Prevent mounting over the repository directory Using a local repository directory as the mount target — or a path that contains it, or that it contains — caused the FUSE server to read its own backend files through the new mount, deadlocking the kernel and requiring a long reboot to recover. Restic now resolves both paths and refuses any such overlap with a clear error before mounting. #5234 #5348 - Bugfix #5667: Skip inaccessible backup source paths The backup command only skipped source paths that did not exist. A path that could not be accessed for another reason, such as a malformed path on Windows, was kept and produced an empty snapshot. Restic now skips any such path and aborts if none remain. #5667 #21852 - Bugfix #5722: Update mount latest symlink after snapshot reload When restic mount w...

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