Recover a deleted snaphot

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Hi,

I’m trying to recover a snapshot deleted by forget. I typed the command:

restic -r d:\copias forget 93c08ac7

After running this command the snapshot is deleted. But when I tried to recover it, I couldn’t do it. To recover the snapshot I typed the command:

restic -r d:\copias recover

The result of running the command is this one:

enter password for repository:
repository d87b845a opened (version 2, compression level auto)
load index files
[0:00] 100.00%  3 / 3 index files loaded
load 169 trees
[0:00] 100.00%  169 / 169 trees loaded
load snapshots
done

found 0 unreferenced roots
no snapshot to write.

After running it I couldn’t display the new snapshot.
I don’t know what’s wrong. I’m using version 0.17.3 of restic running Windows 11.

Thanks

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Note that the recover command does not recover snapshots, but (tries to) recover unreferenced data. If it finds some trees which are not referenced by any snapshot, it creates a new snapshot which points to such a tree.

So, in your case, the snapshot you have removed by forget seems to point to a tree which is already referenced in another, still existing snapshot. Most likely this is because the snapshots tree was identical to a previous or follow-up snapshot.

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