From f9e5660e75de02e1a0b1fddec58470864d5a2ef3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Eischer <michael.eischer@fau.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 22:01:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] output which source and target snapshot belong together

---
 cmd/restic/cmd_copy.go         |  6 +++++-
 doc/045_working_with_repos.rst | 13 ++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cmd/restic/cmd_copy.go b/cmd/restic/cmd_copy.go
index 948782f82..bf86de8a7 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_copy.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_copy.go
@@ -225,6 +225,10 @@ func copyTreeBatched(ctx context.Context, srcRepo restic.Repository, dstRepo res
 			return err
 		}
 
+		// add a newline to separate saved snapshot messages from the other messages
+		if len(batch) > 1 {
+			printer.P("")
+		}
 		// save all the snapshots
 		for _, sn := range batch {
 			err := copySaveSnapshot(ctx, sn, dstRepo, printer)
@@ -322,6 +326,6 @@ func copySaveSnapshot(ctx context.Context, sn *data.Snapshot, dstRepo restic.Rep
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	printer.P("snapshot %s saved", newID.Str())
+	printer.P("snapshot %s saved, copied from source snapshot %s", newID.Str(), sn.ID().Str())
 	return nil
 }
diff --git a/doc/045_working_with_repos.rst b/doc/045_working_with_repos.rst
index 5fadac637..797ea9f9d 100644
--- a/doc/045_working_with_repos.rst
+++ b/doc/045_working_with_repos.rst
@@ -205,21 +205,28 @@ example from a local to a remote repository, you can use the ``copy`` command:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
-    $ restic -r /srv/restic-repo-copy copy --from-repo /srv/restic-repo
+    $ restic -r /srv/restic-repo-copy copy --from-repo /srv/restic-repo --verbose
     repository d6504c63 opened successfully
     repository 3dd0878c opened successfully
+    [0:00] 100.00%  2 / 2 index files loaded
+    [0:00] 100.00%  7 / 7 index files loaded
 
     snapshot 410b18a2 of [/home/user/work] at 2020-06-09 23:15:57.305305 +0200 CEST by user@kasimir
       copy started, this may take a while...
-    snapshot 7a746a07 saved
+    [0:00] 100.00%  13 / 13 packs copied
 
     snapshot 4e5d5487 of [/home/user/work] at 2020-05-01 22:44:07.012113 +0200 CEST by user@kasimir
     skipping snapshot 4e5d5487, was already copied to snapshot 50eb62b7
 
+    snapshot 7a746a07 saved, copied from source snapshot 410b18a2
+
 The example command copies all snapshots from the source repository
 ``/srv/restic-repo`` to the destination repository ``/srv/restic-repo-copy``.
 Snapshots which have previously been copied between repositories will
-be skipped by later copy runs.
+be skipped by later copy runs. Information about skipped snapshots is only
+printed when ``--verbose`` is passed to the command. For efficiency reasons,
+the snapshots are copied in batches, such that the ``snapshot [...] saved``
+messages can appear some time after the snapshot content was copied.
 
 .. important:: This process will have to both download (read) and upload (write)
     the entire snapshot(s) due to the different encryption keys used in the