I tested by attempting to do a full restore to a temp directory.
The commands that triggered the corruption were the following. I tested the restore around the 10th run of this.
repo=sftp:chenxiaolong@<ip address>:/home/restic
restic -r "${repo}" backup -x /home
restic -r "${repo}" backup -x --exclude /stuff/Android/AOSP /stuff
restic -r "${repo}" forget --keep-last 3 --prune