diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index dd5be92a6..3865f4b98 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ Important Changes in 0.X.Y
    included) in a restore, they are not loaded from the repo any more.
    https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1044
 
+ * Name collisions are now resolved by appending a counter.
+   https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1179
+   https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1209
+
 
 Small changes
 -------------
diff --git a/internal/archiver/archiver.go b/internal/archiver/archiver.go
index dd7bea06f..3117ec509 100644
--- a/internal/archiver/archiver.go
+++ b/internal/archiver/archiver.go
@@ -383,7 +383,22 @@ func (arch *Archiver) dirWorker(ctx context.Context, wg *sync.WaitGroup, p *rest
 						panic("invalid null subtree restic.ID")
 					}
 				}
-				tree.Insert(node)
+
+				// insert node into tree, resolve name collisions
+				name := node.Name
+				i := 0
+				for {
+					i++
+					err := tree.Insert(node)
+					if err == nil {
+						break
+					}
+
+					newName := fmt.Sprintf("%v-%d", name, i)
+					fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%v: name collision for %q, renaming to %q\n", filepath.Dir(node.Path), node.Name, newName)
+					node.Name = newName
+				}
+
 			}
 
 			node := &restic.Node{}
diff --git a/internal/archiver/archiver_test.go b/internal/archiver/archiver_test.go
index 2961d403c..aaaf02a22 100644
--- a/internal/archiver/archiver_test.go
+++ b/internal/archiver/archiver_test.go
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"context"
 	"io"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
@@ -312,3 +315,54 @@ func TestArchiveEmptySnapshot(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("expected null snapshot for empty snapshot, got %v", sn)
 	}
 }
+
+func chdir(t testing.TB, target string) (cleanup func()) {
+	curdir, err := os.Getwd()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	t.Logf("chdir to %v", target)
+	err = os.Chdir(target)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	return func() {
+		t.Logf("chdir back to %v", curdir)
+		err := os.Chdir(curdir)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestArchiveNameCollision(t *testing.T) {
+	repo, cleanup := repository.TestRepository(t)
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	dir, cleanup := TempDir(t)
+	defer cleanup()
+
+	root := filepath.Join(dir, "root")
+	OK(t, os.MkdirAll(root, 0755))
+
+	OK(t, ioutil.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "testfile"), []byte("testfile1"), 0644))
+	OK(t, ioutil.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "root", "testfile"), []byte("testfile2"), 0644))
+
+	defer chdir(t, root)()
+
+	arch := archiver.New(repo)
+
+	sn, id, err := arch.Snapshot(context.TODO(), nil, []string{"testfile", filepath.Join("..", "testfile")}, nil, "localhost", nil)
+	OK(t, err)
+
+	t.Logf("snapshot archived as %v", id)
+
+	tree, err := repo.LoadTree(context.TODO(), *sn.Tree)
+	OK(t, err)
+
+	if len(tree.Nodes) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("tree has %d nodes, wanted 2: %v", len(tree.Nodes), tree.Nodes)
+	}
+}