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+Enhancement: Ignore AWS permission denied error when creating a repository.
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+It's not possible to use s3 backend scoped to a subdirectory(with specific permissions).
+Restic doesn't try to create repository in a subdirectory, when 'bucket exists' of parent directory check fails due to permission issues.
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+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1648
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