From e2d9900d826fb865c3d0af2ba8b386e36a22f4cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Neumann Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 18:41:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add entry to CHANGELOG --- changelog/unreleased/issue-1978 | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 changelog/unreleased/issue-1978 diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/issue-1978 b/changelog/unreleased/issue-1978 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b3f5101ba --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog/unreleased/issue-1978 @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Bugfix: Do not return an error when the scanner is faster than backup + +When restic makes a backup, there's a background task called "scanner" which +collects information on how many files and directories are to be saved, in +order to display progress information to the user. When the backup finishes +faster than the scanner, it is aborted because the result is not needed any +more. This logic contained a bug, where quitting the scanner process was +treated as an error, and caused restic to print an unhelpful error message +("context canceled"). + +https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1978 +https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1991