Skip-if-unchanged ignored for stdin backups
The skip-if-unchanged option does nothing when backing up command output through stdin, so identical disk images create new snapshots
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 13 May 2026 · last reported 15 May 2026
What's going wrong
A team streams virtual machine disks through a command into restic and expects the skip option to avoid saving a new snapshot when a powered-off machine has not changed.
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