When you use the “forget” command to delete snapshots in Restic, the data is still present in the repository, so long as you haven’t “prune” the repo. The data in those deleted snapshots can be recovered using the “recover” command. The recover command will create a new snapshot with all the deleted snapshot data.

More on the recover command 👉🏾 https://www.mankier.com/1/restic-recover

More on restoring data in Restic 👉🏾 https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/050_restore.html

Restic commands 👉🏾 https://www.mankier.com/package/restic