Locating files that were backed up unintentionally

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@cowwoc

Is there a way to list all files in a repository, sorted by size? I’d like to dump that to a log file and scan the list manually. It might also be useful to sort directories by their recursive size instead so I can better prioritize my search path.

restic ls --long SNAPSHOTID | sort -k 4

@cowwoc

Alternatively, can anyone else think of a useful way to achieve the desired outcome (locate unintentional backups of large files)?

If you are sure that ‘unintentional’ files are always bigger than a certain size you can use the --exclude-larger-than flag when doing backups.