Full backup drive breaks prune and index
A full repository drive stops prune and forget, and the repository index becomes corrupted with invalid data errors.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
9 public reports · first reported 28 March 2026 · last reported 29 March 2026
What's going wrong
People who keep restic repositories on external USB drives or network-attached storage sometimes let the drive fill up.
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