Help: correct use of restic "parent not found"

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Hello @EnricoSx
Does your include.txt file have a path on each line and without commas or anything separating it?
Like:

c:\my data1
c:\my pictures

Also check this link:

Restic never finds a parent snapshot

Sorry for misleading you about your --files-from option. Of course this is equal to just putting all paths to the command line. In your case the problem is that /data/www/* /home/nexargi/GI/mysql/* resolves the paths to all entries within this dirs. So if files or dirs within those two dirs change, you have changed backup paths and restic will not find parent snapshots. Try using /data/www/ /home/nexargi/GI/mysql/ instead. (The same could be achieved using the PR above, but you are right t…

Maybe you are including a path that is part of another previous path.

And this is a question for me, what kind of content do you have in windows.escludi? Temporary files, program folders, etc?