From fe269c752afc29eff7a555d57f975ffe46aee213 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Eischer <michael.eischer@fau.de>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 19:09:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] repair snapshots: remove irregular files

---
 cmd/restic/cmd_repair_snapshots.go | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cmd/restic/cmd_repair_snapshots.go b/cmd/restic/cmd_repair_snapshots.go
index 385854312..01281cf3e 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_repair_snapshots.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_repair_snapshots.go
@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ func runRepairSnapshots(ctx context.Context, gopts GlobalOptions, opts RepairOpt
 	// - files whose contents are not fully available  (-> file will be modified)
 	rewriter := walker.NewTreeRewriter(walker.RewriteOpts{
 		RewriteNode: func(node *restic.Node, path string) *restic.Node {
+			if node.Type == "irregular" || node.Type == "" {
+				Verbosef("  file %q: removed node with invalid type %q\n", path, node.Type)
+				return nil
+			}
 			if node.Type != "file" {
 				return node
 			}