From 6f3883c9d23133255da11cd441caa01a1e6b1a14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jerome=20K=C3=BCttner?= <j.kuettner@mittwald.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 08:47:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add changelog

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 changelog/unreleased/pull-3780 | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelog/unreleased/pull-3780

diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-3780 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-3780
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8ec2ca076
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-3780
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+Bugfix: Make sure that symlinks can be created during recovery
+
+When restoring a symlink, restic reported an error if the target path already existed.
+With this change, the potentially existing target path is first removed before the symlink is recreated.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2578
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3780