Known issues ‐ Limitations

General limitations

As of version 3.0.0, failed forget operations will appear as successful, since the backup backend reports them that way. An issue is opened at /~https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/5254
Cloud files exclusions work on regex basis which isn't optimal and might fail under certain linguistic scanarios. A patch has been pulled (and sponsored a bit by NetInvent) at /~https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4990 and shall be added to next restic version

When loading the GUI app under windows, we need to load then hide the console in order to be able to capture stdout for upgrades. This delays the GUI start a little.
Closing the GUI via CTRL+C will trigger an error because of the GUI framework. A patch has been submitted at /~https://github.com/spyoungtech/FreeSimpleGUI/pull/51

When using windows-x86-legacy builds, there are two limitations that cannot be solved easily:

Upgrading from the GUI will fail due to not being able to catch console input
Excluding cloud files will work less well because we're using regexes in hope to catch cloud exclusions whereas restic 0.18 has an option to exclude cloud files