From 746dbda4130485957afa452988f58b718795f4da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: greatroar <@>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:00:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Mark "ssh exited" errors in SFTP as permanent

---
 internal/backend/sftp/sftp.go | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/internal/backend/sftp/sftp.go b/internal/backend/sftp/sftp.go
index 0a2c15e75..4a0c1695b 100644
--- a/internal/backend/sftp/sftp.go
+++ b/internal/backend/sftp/sftp.go
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/backend"
 	"github.com/restic/restic/internal/debug"
 
+	"github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4"
 	"github.com/pkg/sftp"
 )
 
@@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ func (r *SFTP) clientError() error {
 	select {
 	case err := <-r.result:
 		debug.Log("client has exited with err %v", err)
-		return err
+		return backoff.Permanent(err)
 	default:
 	}