The following is a rough roadmap draft for upcoming restic versions. The roadmap for restic
0.18 and 0.19 only contains the planned major features, we’ll see about the rest once we’re there.
The plan may change over time depending on newly arising issues or pull requests.
The “reduce number of … PR”
task is a wildcard task to slowly reduce the number of waiting PRs without completely
stopping the development of new features.
Not knowing that restic 0.16.3 (great program, btw!) doesn’t do ‘inplace’ restore, I just did that a week ago. And for what I experienced, it worked. So, what am I missing? What did really happen when I restored /opt/local with restore -t / (as root)? It seems to have just worked.
There are some corner cases like readonly folders that cause problems; overwriting symlinks was only fixed a few releases ago. The main improvement for inplace restores will however be the support for resuming restores.
The roadmap for restic 0.18 is now tracked at Restic 0.18 roadmap · GitHub . Given that the development for restic 0.17.0 took so long, we might end up splitting restic 0.18.0 into two smaller releases.