diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-4977 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-4977
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..702df29a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-4977
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Change: let `backup` store files with incomplete metadata
+
+If restic failed to read the extended metadata for a file or folder while
+creating a backup, then the file or folder was not included in the resulting
+snapshot. Instead, only a warning message was printed along with exiting
+with exit code 3.
+
+Now, restic also includes items for which the extended metadata could not
+be read in a snapshot. The warning message has been changed to read
+```
+incomplete metadata for /path/to/file: details on error
+```
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4953
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4977
diff --git a/internal/archiver/archiver.go b/internal/archiver/archiver.go
index d9f089e81..e44151298 100644
--- a/internal/archiver/archiver.go
+++ b/internal/archiver/archiver.go
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@ func (arch *Archiver) nodeFromFileInfo(snPath, filename string, fi os.FileInfo,
 	// overwrite name to match that within the snapshot
 	node.Name = path.Base(snPath)
 	if err != nil {
-		return node, fmt.Errorf("nodeFromFileInfo %v: %w", filename, err)
+		err = fmt.Errorf("incomplete metadata for %v: %w", filename, err)
+		return node, arch.error(filename, err)
 	}
 	return node, err
 }
diff --git a/internal/archiver/archiver_test.go b/internal/archiver/archiver_test.go
index f38d5b0de..b519387db 100644
--- a/internal/archiver/archiver_test.go
+++ b/internal/archiver/archiver_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package archiver
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"context"
+	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -2338,3 +2339,28 @@ func TestRacyFileSwap(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("Save() excluded the node, that's unexpected")
 	}
 }
+
+func TestMetadataBackupErrorFiltering(t *testing.T) {
+	tempdir := t.TempDir()
+	repo := repository.TestRepository(t)
+
+	filename := filepath.Join(tempdir, "file")
+	rtest.OK(t, os.WriteFile(filename, []byte("example"), 0o600))
+	fi, err := os.Stat(filename)
+	rtest.OK(t, err)
+
+	arch := New(repo, fs.Local{}, Options{})
+
+	var filteredErr error
+	replacementErr := fmt.Errorf("replacement")
+	arch.Error = func(item string, err error) error {
+		filteredErr = err
+		return replacementErr
+	}
+
+	// check that errors from reading extended metadata are properly filtered
+	node, err := arch.nodeFromFileInfo("file", filename+"invalid", fi, false)
+	rtest.Assert(t, node != nil, "node is missing")
+	rtest.Assert(t, err == replacementErr, "expected %v got %v", replacementErr, err)
+	rtest.Assert(t, filteredErr != nil, "missing inner error")
+}