Prune performance

Questions

  • What operating system is your computer using?
  • What antivirus program are you using?
  • What is the key bottleneck? Is it using a lot of CPU, a lot of I/O, etc?

If using Windows, please open the resource manager during a prune and check what process(s) are accessing the disk. As I discovered in this thread antivirus programs can massively increase the time required to do backups / prunes. I found I had to give restic an exception to virus scanning. In the end I got rid of Avira and used Windows Defender, I can’t remember if I had to create an exception for that or not.