Backup alerts cannot separate harmless file errors
Backup alerts fire on every file error, so harmless transient read errors cannot be separated from errors that threaten the whole backup.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 5 July 2026 · last reported 6 July 2026
What's going wrong
A user running hourly restic backups receives alerts for every error, including transient ones on files that were being written during the run.
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