Bugfix: Don't read password from stdin for backup --stdin Restic backup previously tried to read first the password, then the data to be backed up from standard input. This meant it would often confuse part of the data for the password. From now on, restic backup --stdin will exit with the message Fatal: cannot read both password and data from stdin unless the password is passed in some other way (--restic-password-file, RESTIC_PASSWORD, etc.). To enter the password interactively, a password command has to be used. For example, on Linux, mysqldump somedatabase | restic backup --stdin \ --password-command='sh -c "systemd-ask-password < /dev/tty"' securely reads the password from the terminal. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2591 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4011