Exclude rules cannot re-include nested files
Restic exclude rules cannot re-include files inside a directory that an earlier pattern already excluded.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 30 March 2026 · last reported 1 April 2026
What's going wrong
People backing up a home folder on macOS or Linux try to exclude most of a directory tree while keeping one nested subfolder, such as saved game data.
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