Continuous backup

[matt]

@arikb

If I backup individual files - I get a snapshot containing only /home/user/file1 and another snapshot containing only /home/user/file2 etc. so I not only have to back individual files, I have to somehow create a new snapshot that contains all the files of the previous snapshot of the same root directory (I’m guessing restic uses pointers to existing blobs), except for the files that were changed.

I haven’t tried, but isn’t there restic find for this sort of thing, to find a file in a recent snapshot? Because if that worked, and if having lots of little snapshots wasn’t a bad thing, you could use find to locate the file(s) you want and then restore from the snapshot it’s in.

@arikb

Now that I had to write it down to explain it I realise that this will require code changes… Is there a way to suggest new features?

You can open an issue on GitHub: Issues · restic/restic · GitHub.