Backup family photos and videos

Getting Help
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Hi all,

I’m new to restic.

I would like to use it to backup ~500 Go family photos and videos on Windows 10.

My photos are on an HDD.

My storage is an SSD on USB.

I try to test and find that on the second backup it took near the same time than to build the repo for the first time.

As my data are growing every year I would like to accelerate the backup if this is possible. For exemple, my photos are organized by year and I know that the year 2000 is stable instead of the current year. So is there a way to tell restic to focus on known unstable directories only ?

I used a very simple

restic backup –files-from “%BACKUP_LIST%” –repo “%RESTIC_REPOSITORY%”

Hoping restic is the tool I need.

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Hi!

Can you show us the complete output from the first and the second backup run?

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Unfortunately not, I have no log and did not keep the execution traces.

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Okay, not much to look at then :confused: We need more information.

Can you reproduce the problem?

Does the content of %BACKUP_LIST% change between the runs?

Please try setting the --parent option to the latest snapshot’s ID and see if that makes a difference.

Also, please provide the information you were asked for when you wrote your initial post :slight_smile: