[Borgbackup] Lots of files that change rarely and predictably

[Dan Christensen]

On Sep 11, 2017, Thomas Levine <_ at thomaslevine.com> wrote:

> I have a directory of about 670,683 files in a single borg repository.
> Archive creation takes a long time because borg checks all of the files.

Another point I should make is that I back up that many files regularly,
most of which haven't changed, and it only takes a 2-3 minutes.  Are you
running on a filesystem with stable inodes?  Borg should quickly check
mtime, size and inode number, and skip files that it has already backed
up.

Dan