Update old snapshots

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Hi,

I’m using Restic to back up similar files, but I made a mistake initially and saved the files in a compressed format. As a result, Restic isn’t recognizing the similarities between them, and the backups are significantly larger.

Is there a way to fix this for the older snapshots so that Restic can detect the similarities without having to recreate all the snapshots? I’d like to keep the original timestamps and metadata of the snapshots intact.

Thanks!

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You will have to re-create the snapshots again. Although you can use the --time Option to retrospectively set the time for when the snapshot was originally made. This will also help restic find the appropriate parent snapshot, if there is one.

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