Enhancement: Add --dry-run/-n option to backup command Testing exclude filters and other configuration options required running a normal backup. Wrong filters could then cause files to be uploaded unexpectedly. It was also not possible to approximately determine beforehand how much data has to be uploaded. We added a new --dry-run/-n option to the backup command, which performs all the normal steps of a backup without actually writing any changes to the repository. Passing -vv will log information about files that would be added, allowing verification of source and exclusion backup options without committing changes to the repository. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1542 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2308 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3210 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3300