This enables the backends to request the calculation of a
backend-specific hash. For the currently supported backends this will
always be MD5. The hash calculation happens as early as possible, for
pack files this is during assembly of the pack file. That way the hash
would even capture corruptions of the temporary pack file on disk.
This can be used to check how large a backup is or validate exclusions.
It does not actually write any data to the underlying backend. This is
implemented as a simple overlay backend that accepts writes without
forwarding them, passes through reads, and generally does the minimal
necessary to pretend that progress is actually happening.
Fixes #1542
Example usage:
$ restic -vv --dry-run . | grep add
new /changelog/unreleased/issue-1542, saved in 0.000s (350 B added)
modified /cmd/restic/cmd_backup.go, saved in 0.000s (16.543 KiB added)
modified /cmd/restic/global.go, saved in 0.000s (0 B added)
new /internal/backend/dry/dry_backend_test.go, saved in 0.000s (3.866 KiB added)
new /internal/backend/dry/dry_backend.go, saved in 0.000s (3.744 KiB added)
modified /internal/backend/test/tests.go, saved in 0.000s (0 B added)
modified /internal/repository/repository.go, saved in 0.000s (20.707 KiB added)
modified /internal/ui/backup.go, saved in 0.000s (9.110 KiB added)
modified /internal/ui/jsonstatus/status.go, saved in 0.001s (11.055 KiB added)
modified /restic, saved in 0.131s (25.542 MiB added)
Would add to the repo: 25.892 MiB