Amount of Snapshots

Hello.

We started using restic and it is awesome.

May i ask. We have a data dir that we take it backup 26 times per day.

So we have per day 26 snapshots and we keep the data for 7 days. The sum of that is 182 snapshots per week.

The data directory is 150GB.

Is restic resilient enough and can handle 182 snapshots? Are they too much? Is there a chance the repository to broke because of the 182 snapshots?

Sorry for my ignorance.

Thank you.

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Have a look at:

All depends on your system really. Raspberry Pi with 1GB RAM will handle less than some server with 1TB RAM…(RAM is deciding factor here) But 200 snapshots and 150 GB repo IMO is no sweat for “standard” computer.

I think the best what you can do is to test - monitor RAM usage. Draw your own conclusions.

PS. make sure you are using the latest restic version.

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