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+Enhancement: Retry loading repository config
+
+Restic now retries loading the repository config file when opening a repository.
+In addition, the `init` command now also retries backend operations.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/5081
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5095