diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-1891 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-1891
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b70900a93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-1891
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Enhancement: Accept glob in paths loaded via --files-from
+
+Before that, behaviour was different if paths were appended to command line or
+from a file, because wild card characters were expanded by shell if appended to
+command line, but not expanded if loaded from file.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1891
diff --git a/cmd/restic/cmd_backup.go b/cmd/restic/cmd_backup.go
index 290a31ba1..a8de4bd4f 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_backup.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_backup.go
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ import (
 	"bufio"
 	"bytes"
 	"context"
+	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
@@ -301,10 +303,21 @@ func collectTargets(opts BackupOptions, args []string) (targets []string, err er
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	// expand wildcards
+	var lines []string
+	for _, line := range fromfile {
+		var expanded []string
+		expanded, err := filepath.Glob(line)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, errors.WithMessage(err, fmt.Sprintf("pattern: %s", line))
+		}
+		lines = append(lines, expanded...)
+	}
+
 	// merge files from files-from into normal args so we can reuse the normal
 	// args checks and have the ability to use both files-from and args at the
 	// same time
-	args = append(args, fromfile...)
+	args = append(args, lines...)
 	if len(args) == 0 && !opts.Stdin {
 		return nil, errors.Fatal("nothing to backup, please specify target files/dirs")
 	}
diff --git a/internal/errors/errors.go b/internal/errors/errors.go
index aa2ff6f2b..ffd3d615e 100644
--- a/internal/errors/errors.go
+++ b/internal/errors/errors.go
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ var Wrap = errors.Wrap
 // nil, Wrapf returns nil.
 var Wrapf = errors.Wrapf
 
+// WithMessage annotates err with a new message. If err is nil, WithMessage
+// returns nil.
+var WithMessage = errors.WithMessage
+
 // Cause returns the cause of an error. It will also unwrap certain errors,
 // e.g. *url.Error returned by the net/http client.
 func Cause(err error) error {