What are the possible causes of Data integrity and consistency issues in restic repositories, and what are some preventive measures and troubleshooting steps to avoid or address these issues?

Getting Help
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I am new to the community, just want to know what are some potential data sanity causes you have faced and some mitigation techniques on the same matter.
If any testing measures do help me…

Thanks in advance

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With restic it’s recommended to run restic check (possibly using --read-data) from time to time, to let restic verify the repository integrity. All data in the repository is covered by one or multiple checksums such that restic will detect data corruption in the repository once encountering it.

In general, restic is designed to correctly handle canceling an operation at arbitrary time. The same also applies for interrupted network connections.

For a detailed look at possible causes of repository damages, take a look at Study of repository damage types . Several of these damage types are caused by issues outside of restic’s control. To guard against those, essentially the only option is to have multiple backups, as for example suggested by the 3-2-1 rule: 3 copies of the data (1 original + 2 separate backups), 2 independent storage types / backup programs, 1 offsite copy.