No delete protection for specific snapshots
Snapshots can be removed by forget or prune with no way to mark one as protected from deletion.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
6 public reports · first reported 19 March 2026 · last reported 20 March 2026
What's going wrong
Users who keep important restic snapshots want to protect them from automatic removal by forget and prune, whether the removal comes from a cron job, a typo, or a mistaken policy.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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