diff --git a/cmd/restic/cmd_debug.go b/cmd/restic/cmd_debug.go
index 4c856c8ac..8efb6c8a3 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_debug.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_debug.go
@@ -53,12 +53,14 @@ Exit status is 0 if the command was successful, and non-zero if there was any er
 var tryRepair bool
 var repairByte bool
 var extractPack bool
+var reuploadBlobs bool
 
 func init() {
 	cmdRoot.AddCommand(cmdDebug)
 	cmdDebug.AddCommand(cmdDebugDump)
 	cmdDebug.AddCommand(cmdDebugExamine)
 	cmdDebugExamine.Flags().BoolVar(&extractPack, "extract-pack", false, "write blobs to the current directory")
+	cmdDebugExamine.Flags().BoolVar(&reuploadBlobs, "reupload-blobs", false, "reupload blobs to the repository")
 	cmdDebugExamine.Flags().BoolVar(&tryRepair, "try-repair", false, "try to repair broken blobs with single bit flips")
 	cmdDebugExamine.Flags().BoolVar(&repairByte, "repair-byte", false, "try to repair broken blobs by trying bytes")
 }
@@ -383,6 +385,20 @@ func loadBlobs(ctx context.Context, repo restic.Repository, pack restic.ID, list
 				return err
 			}
 		}
+		if reuploadBlobs {
+			_, _, err := repo.SaveBlob(ctx, blob.Type, plaintext, id, true)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			Printf("         uploaded %v %v\n", blob.Type, id)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if reuploadBlobs {
+		err := repo.Flush(ctx)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
 	}
 
 	return nil
@@ -411,12 +427,23 @@ func storePlainBlob(id restic.ID, prefix string, plain []byte) error {
 }
 
 func runDebugExamine(gopts GlobalOptions, args []string) error {
+	repo, err := OpenRepository(gopts)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
 	ids := make([]restic.ID, 0)
 	for _, name := range args {
 		id, err := restic.ParseID(name)
 		if err != nil {
-			Warnf("error: %v\n", err)
-			continue
+			name, err = restic.Find(gopts.ctx, repo.Backend(), restic.PackFile, name)
+			if err == nil {
+				id, err = restic.ParseID(name)
+			}
+			if err != nil {
+				Warnf("error: %v\n", err)
+				continue
+			}
 		}
 		ids = append(ids, id)
 	}
@@ -425,11 +452,6 @@ func runDebugExamine(gopts GlobalOptions, args []string) error {
 		return errors.Fatal("no pack files to examine")
 	}
 
-	repo, err := OpenRepository(gopts)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
 	if !gopts.NoLock {
 		lock, err := lockRepo(gopts.ctx, repo)
 		defer unlockRepo(lock)