Server admins cannot prune client restic repos
Server admins cannot enforce retention or quotas on restic client repositories because only clients hold the password, so old backups pile up.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
6 public reports · first reported 7 July 2026 · last reported 8 July 2026
What's going wrong
A computing center runs a rest server for about a hundred clients and needs the server to delete old backups, as its previous backup system did.
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