Filter which exclude certain tag, host or path

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Hi,

Just a quick question. Do restic support filter which exclude tag/host/path from search?

For eg: I have 10 different set of tags, and I want to exclude only 2 tags from the result.

Thanks

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What command are you talking about?

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For my use case, it would be on snapshots, stats and forget. I want to get all snapshots that don’t have a certain tag. Same goes to stats and forget.

Thanks

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The answer is no - restic does not support excluding tags, the options for tags in those commands are about including them.

However, you can probably run e.g. snapshots with the --json and then filter the JSON output using jq to get a list of snapshots which does not include one or two tags (assuming jq has a “not” operator, which is something I haven’t checked).

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Yeah, I figured jq would be a perfect alternative too, but that will apply to only snapshots. It can’t be applied to stats and forget.

But its okay. I’ll try to find another way.

Thanks

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Another ways might be using snapshots to get list of snapshots, filter them using jq and pass the filtered ids to stats or forget.