exclude-if-present skips whole backup source
The --exclude-if-present flag skips an entire source path when an ancestor directory holds the marker file.
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4 public reports · first reported 29 March 2026 · last reported 2 April 2026
What's going wrong
Users running restic backup with the exclude-if-present option find that a marker file in a parent directory, such as a git folder in their home directory, causes restic to skip the whole path they explicitly asked to back up.
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