Risks/consequences of prune when backup in progress or vice versa

For the reference: restic unlock will only remove locks it considers stale, which are locks that are older than ~5 minutes. When a process (e.g. backup or prune) is running, the lock is replaced every 5 minutes, so this is still safe.

However, I advise people to rather find the source of the lock files in the repo, so that unlock isn’t needed in a script.

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