Hello,
I successfully wrote my first script and restic completed the initial backup
Files: 310699 new, 0 changed, 0 unmodified
Dirs: 2 new, 0 changed, 0 unmodified
Data Blobs: 331856 new
Tree Blobs: 3 new
Added to the repo: 178.373 GiB
processed 310699 files, 210.085 GiB in 4:38:08
Then I ran it again and got this result
Files: 7 new, 205290 changed, 105407 unmodified
Dirs: 0 new, 2 changed, 0 unmodified
Data Blobs: 122 new
Tree Blobs: 3 new
Added to the repo: 138.297 MiB
processed 310704 files, 210.133 GiB in 1:42:25
I was very surprised about the long runtime since only a few files have changed on disk (~ 140 MB seems right) As you can see from the summary and the log is full of entries like:
modified /mnt/windows-cifs/file1.txt, saved in 0.853s (0 B added)
modified /mnt/windows-cifs/file2.jpg, saved in 0.853s (0 B added)
which means that restic detected lots of files as modified, read them and after dedup of course 0 bytes added. The problem is these files have not changed in years.
stat /mnt/windows-cifs/file1.txt
Size: 2342946 Blocks: 4584 IO Block: 16384 regular file
Device: 10h/16d Inode: 281474976722819 Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2010-02-08 18:51:54.502064100 +0100
Modify: 2009-12-24 20:43:48.000000000 +0100
Change: 2014-10-31 22:22:11.328678700 +0100
I have used this combination of mounted cifs network share (Windows) and dirvish (based on rsync) backup on Linux server for many years without a problem. Average backup time ~10 minutes.
What am I missing here?