Copied snapshots lose dedup without chunker match
Copying snapshots into a repository created without matching chunker parameters loses deduplication, and the fix currently needs an unreleased patch.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 13 August 2026 · last reported 14 August 2026
What's going wrong
A user created a new restic repository without the chunker parameters of the source and copied snapshots into it with the copy command.
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