Incremental backup

Getting Help
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Hi,
Is it taking the incremental backup or overall backup?
I mean, Incremental backup only uploads the changed file.

Thanks,
Kannan V

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I’m not really sure if I understand your question correctly but restic always makes a full backup. Every snapshot is a complete copy of a directory (or multiple directories) at this time.

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Ok… Thanks…

In general, Restic is really very good idea for the backup/Recovery…

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Each “snapshot” in restic is independent of all other snapshots, so there’s no distinction between “incermental” and “full” backups, but restic uses a clever de-duplication function for data, so all backups are always incremental: only new or changed data is uploaded to the repo.

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Thanks a Lot … Nice to hear

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Why the du -sh of each snapshot shows the same used space between them?

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@ftbarata Please open a new topic. I also don’t understand your question, du -sh is not a restic command, so something is missing in the description here.

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A post was split to a new topic: Snapshot disk usage reported by du -sh