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+Bugfix: Correctly return error loading data
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+In one case during `prune` and `check`, an error loading data from the backend is not returned properly. This is now corrected.
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+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2068
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1999#issuecomment-433737921