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Why is a smaller folder taking longer to be backed up than a largerone?
Okay, so I do daily Macrium file backups of my entire User folder, with
monthly fulls at the beginning of each month. All except one specific subfolder which takes longer than all of the rest of the User folder combined to backup. So I've excluded it, and I back it up in a separate backup job which only runs twice a month, because I can't afford the time to run that daily. The User folder stats (minus excluded folder) are this: Total Number of Files: 342862 Total Size: 913.78 GB Backup Completed Successfully in 05:02:40 Now the excluded folder stats are this: Total Number of Files: 651658 Total Size: 1.57 GB Backup Completed Successfully in 11:47:09 As you can see, an approximately 1 TB folder is fully backed up in about a mere 5 hours, whereas a puny 1.5 GB folder (almost 600x smaller!) can only be fully backed up in about 12 hours? The only difference is that there are about twice as many files in the smaller folder than the larger folder. Both folders are on the exact same physical drive (HDD, not SSD). File system is NTFS. What could be causing such a drastic slowdown? Yousuf Khan |
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