From d71afb3d325951ca48e4434b7f695f987c0227a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Boeckel Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 22:36:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] doc: mention metadata that is not backed up currently See: #3497 See: #1622 See: #2075 --- doc/040_backup.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/040_backup.rst b/doc/040_backup.rst index 4ef95205c..6126db988 100644 --- a/doc/040_backup.rst +++ b/doc/040_backup.rst @@ -437,6 +437,14 @@ written, and the next backup needs to write new metadata again. If you really want to save the access time for files and directories, you can pass the ``--with-atime`` option to the ``backup`` command. +Note that ``restic`` does not back up some metadata associated with files. Of +particular note are:: + + - inode flags on Unix platforms + - the "hidden" flag on Windows + - file ownership and ACLs on Windows + - file creation date on Unix platforms + Reading data from stdin ***********************