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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 0.18.1

Changelog for restic 0.18.1 (2025-09-21) The following sections list the changes in restic 0.18.1 relevant to restic users. The changes are ordered by importance. Summary - Fix #5324: Correctly handle backup --stdin-filename with directory paths - Fix #5325: Accept RESTIC_HOST environment variable in forget command - Fix #5342: Ignore "chmod not supported" errors when writing files - Fix #5344: Ignore EOPNOTSUPP errors for extended attributes - Fix #5421: Fix rare crash if directory is removed during backup - Fix #5429: Stop retrying uploads when rest-server runs out of space - Fix #5467: Improve handling of download retries in check command Details - Bugfix #5324: Correctly handle backup --stdin-filename with directory paths In restic 0.18.0, the backup command failed if a filename that includes at least a directory was passed to --stdin-filename. For example, --stdin-filename /foo/bar resulted in the following error: Fatal: unable to save snapshot: open /foo: no such file or directory This has now been fixed. #5324 #5356 - Bugfix #5325: Accept RESTIC_HOST environment variable in forget command The forget command did not use the host name from the RESTIC_HOST environment variable when filtering snapshots. This has now been fixed. #5325 #5327 - Bugfix #5342: Ignore "chmod not supported" errors when writing files Restic 0.18.0 introduced a bug that caused chmod xxx: operation not supported errors to appear when writing to a local file repository that did not support chmod (like CIFS or WebDAV mounted via FUSE). Restic now ignores those errors. #5342 - Bugfix #5344: Ignore EO...

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