From bbe8b73f032cc390e1c44b0f24ba4ef2f09ac75d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Eischer <michael.eischer@fau.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 23:16:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update help text of backup command in docs

---
 doc/manual_rest.rst | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/manual_rest.rst b/doc/manual_rest.rst
index 32e5f716a..813cdfb8c 100644
--- a/doc/manual_rest.rst
+++ b/doc/manual_rest.rst
@@ -80,10 +80,9 @@ command:
     EXIT STATUS
     ===========
 
-    Exit status is 0 if the command was successful, and non-zero if there was any error.
-
-    Note that some issues such as unreadable or deleted files during backup
-    currently doesn't result in a non-zero error exit status.
+    Exit status is 0 if the command was successful.
+    Exit status is 1 if there was a fatal error (no snapshot created).
+    Exit status is 3 if some source data could not be read (incomplete snapshot created).
 
     Usage:
       restic backup [flags] FILE/DIR [FILE/DIR] ...