diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6500db9..465974f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ and [human-readable changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 ### Fixed:
 * AWS credentials are now supplied to the initialising step
 * Cronjob step does not fail if `scheduled` parameter is not set on repo
+* init respects `'config already initialized'` string
 
 ## [0.2.4] - 2020-06-01
 ### Added
diff --git a/tasks/configure.yml b/tasks/configure.yml
index a965b7d..642f2de 100644
--- a/tasks/configure.yml
+++ b/tasks/configure.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
   failed_when:
     - restic_init.rc != 0
     - not 'config file already exists' in restic_init.stderr
+    - not 'config already initialized' in restic_init.stderr
   loop: "{{ restic_repos|dict2items }}"
   when:
     - item.value.init is defined