https://www.worker7.com/tags/command-line/ Command Line - Tag - Worker7 Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSat, 22 Jan 2022 16:24:48 -0500 https://www.worker7.com/posts/speedup-restic-backups-after-drive-replacement/ Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:24:48 -0500 worker7 https://www.worker7.com/posts/speedup-restic-backups-after-drive-replacement/ I recently had to upgrade an external hard drive to a higher capacity. I used rsync in the archive mode to ensure to preserve all the necessary meta data. One of the main reasons for this was to avoid having to re-read the whole drive in backup programs (due to changed timestamp). In the case of restic though it was scanning all the files nonetheless.

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