Repository on USB drive fails on Windows
Restic repository init fails with a device error on Windows when the repository is on an external USB drive
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
7 public reports · first reported 27 April 2026 · last reported 2 May 2026
What's going wrong
Users creating a repository on an external USB disk under Windows see setup fail after about a minute, with an error about a nonexistent device while the folder structure gets created.
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