Restic repo structure (pictorial representation)

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I’ve summarized restic’s repo structure in this image. Open to suggestions and improvements about the same. Hope it helps :slight_smile:

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Great work, I think this will help in like giving a one shot understanding :grin:

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Thanks for the figure!

We’ve recently fixed some outdated information in the repository format documentation; you might want to take a look at those: History for doc/design.rst - restic/restic · GitHub . In particular, the snapshots don’t have a dir field and by now pack files are expected to either contain data blobs or tree blobs. For repo v2, it is actually forbidden to mix them.

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Hey, thanks for the pointers. I’ll make the changes and upload the latest one.

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I’ve made all the corrections. Here’s the updated version!

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Too good. Great work!!!

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Heyyy Pratt, I wanted to express my gratitude for this post. It really helped me gain a better understanding on repo structure. Thank you!!!

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