Missed or failed scheduled backups go unnoticed
Users have no simple alert when a scheduled backup fails or never runs, so failures go unnoticed.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 24 March 2026 · last reported 25 March 2026
What's going wrong
People who run restic in cron jobs or containers ask how to know when a scheduled backup fails, stalls, or does not run at all.
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