Hello We are trying a maintenance full on a bucket having a lot of snapshots (4000). The maintenance operation is taking 72h, this is a real issue for us. (The underlying network and hardware is not a problem). We are seing strange behavior in debug logs : the same Blob is being downloaded hundre…

I feel like I’m kicking someone who is already down on the ground… [image] PLEASE READ: Don't use --safety=none for routine maintenance General I’ve noticed folks here often paste command line examples involving running: $ kopia maintenance --safety=none I can’t stress …

We are aware of the implications, but here the behaviour is the same with our without this setting. We see hundreds of downloads for the same blob.

I have open this issue, since we are beleiving this is a major Kopia issue. Maintenance job getting ~2000 times the same file, with huge performance and cost impact opened 08:07AM - 08 Jun 23 UTC (UTC) [r…

BTW what is your backup back end? S3? rclone?

Scaleway Object Storage : Object Storage - Quickstart It’s S3 compatible.

Ok I have noticed similar behaviour with rclone and sort of solved it by adding rclone read/write cache. But I suspected that it is because of not perfect rclone/kopia integration. Based on your findings it might be more general issue.

Maintenance full taking an unbeleivable long time

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elel June 7, 2023, 7:55pm 2

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Maintenance full taking an unbeleivable long time

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