From 6309952a82be7827e41d09680d77e1689ebd38b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Eischer <michael.eischer@fau.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:33:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add changelog for rclone retries

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 changelog/unreleased/pull-5251 | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelog/unreleased/pull-5251

diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-5251 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-5251
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..28c9d6e40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-5251
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+Enhancement: Improve handling of flaky rclone backends
+
+Since restic 0.17.0, the backend retry mechanisms relies on backends correctly
+reporting when a file does not exist. This is not always the case for some rclone
+backends, causing restic to stop retrying after the first failure.
+
+For rclone, failed requests are now retried up to 5 times before giving up.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5251