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+Bugfix: Don't print progress for `backup --json --quiet`
+
+Unlike the text output, the json output format still printed progress
+information even in quiet mode. This has been fixed by always disabling the
+progress output in quiet mode.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2738
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3264