diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-4703 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-4703
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4df3385a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-4703
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Bugfix: Shutdown cleanly when SIGTERM is received
+
+Prior, if restic received SIGTERM it'd just immediately terminate skipping
+cleanup- resulting in potential issues like stale locks being left behind.
+
+This primarily effected containerized restic invocations- they use SIGTERM-
+but this could be triggered via a simple `killall restic` in addition.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4703
diff --git a/cmd/restic/cleanup.go b/cmd/restic/cleanup.go
index 75933fe96..5a6cf79e1 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cleanup.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cleanup.go
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ var cleanupHandlers struct {
 func init() {
 	cleanupHandlers.ch = make(chan os.Signal, 1)
 	go CleanupHandler(cleanupHandlers.ch)
-	signal.Notify(cleanupHandlers.ch, syscall.SIGINT)
+	signal.Notify(cleanupHandlers.ch, syscall.SIGINT, syscall.SIGTERM)
 }
 
 // AddCleanupHandler adds the function f to the list of cleanup handlers so
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ func RunCleanupHandlers(code int) int {
 	return code
 }
 
-// CleanupHandler handles the SIGINT signals.
+// CleanupHandler handles the SIGINT and SIGTERM signals.
 func CleanupHandler(c <-chan os.Signal) {
 	for s := range c {
 		debug.Log("signal %v received, cleaning up", s)
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ func CleanupHandler(c <-chan os.Signal) {
 
 		code := 0
 
-		if s == syscall.SIGINT {
+		if s == syscall.SIGINT || s == syscall.SIGTERM {
 			code = 130
 		} else {
 			code = 1