diff --git a/testsuite/test-backup-dedup.sh b/testsuite/test-backup-dedup.sh
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--- a/testsuite/test-backup-dedup.sh
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-set -e
-
-prepare
-run restic init
-
-# first backup without dedup
-run restic backup "${BASE}/fake-data"
-size=$(du -sm "$RESTIC_REPOSITORY" | cut -f1)
-debug "size before: $size"
-
-# second backup with dedup
-run restic backup "${BASE}/fake-data"
-size2=$(du -sm "$RESTIC_REPOSITORY" | cut -f1)
-debug "size after: $size2"
-
-# check if the repository hasn't grown more than 5%
-threshhold=$(($size+$size/20))
-debug "threshhold is $threshhold"
-if [[ "$size2" -gt "$threshhold" ]]; then
-    fail "dedup failed, repo grown more than 5%, before ${size}MiB after ${size2}MiB threshhold ${threshhold}MiB"
-fi
-
-cleanup
diff --git a/testsuite/test-backup-incremental.sh b/testsuite/test-backup-incremental.sh
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--- a/testsuite/test-backup-incremental.sh
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-set -e
-
-prepare
-run restic init
-
-# create testfile
-echo "testfile" > ${BASE}/fake-data/file
-
-# run first backup
-run restic backup "${BASE}/fake-data"
-
-# remember snapshot id
-SNAPSHOT=$(run restic list snapshots)
-
-# add data to testfile
-date >> ${BASE}/fake-data/file
-
-# run backup again
-run restic backup "${BASE}/fake-data"
-
-# add data to testfile
-date >> ${BASE}/fake-data/file
-
-# run incremental backup
-run restic backup -p "$SNAPSHOT" "${BASE}/fake-data"
-
-run restic fsck -o --check-data
-cleanup
diff --git a/testsuite/test-backup.sh b/testsuite/test-backup.sh
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-set -e
-
-prepare
-run restic init
-run restic backup "${BASE}/fake-data"
-run restic restore "$(basename "$RESTIC_REPOSITORY"/snapshots/*)" "${BASE}/fake-data-restore"
-dirdiff "${BASE}/fake-data" "${BASE}/fake-data-restore/fake-data"
-
-SNAPSHOT=$(restic list snapshots)
-run restic backup -p "$SNAPSHOT" "${BASE}/fake-data"
-run restic restore "$(basename "$RESTIC_REPOSITORY"/snapshots/*)" "${BASE}/fake-data-restore-incremental"
-dirdiff "${BASE}/fake-data" "${BASE}/fake-data-restore-incremental/fake-data"
-
-echo "snapshot id is $SNAPSHOT"
-restic ls "$SNAPSHOT" fake-data/0/0/1 | head -n 10
-
-run restic fsck -o --check-data
-cleanup