Restic first backup very slowly

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You can increase restic’s minimum (pack) file size. It should make a big difference to your particular bottleneck. For example:

Impose minimum file size

Yes there is. But not in the release binaries. You either need to make changes to the code, as detailed by @fd0 here: or make a version with a PR that adds this as an option, such as this one (–min-packsize): I go the manual-edit route, and make my own executable every couple of releases (128Mb works great for me). If you’re not comfortable with that approach, you probably need to look for a different backup solution (for example, Borg defaults to 500Mb I believe). The evidence for the ne…