# Option to “backup selective parts”

**URL:** <https://kopia.discourse.group/t/option-to-backup-selective-parts/8868>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [April 29, 2026, 8:50am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/option-to-backup-selective-parts/8868 "2026-04-29T08:50:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![uew93h](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/5e9695/32.png) [@uew93h](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/uew93h)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 8:50am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/option-to-backup-selective-parts/8868/1 "2026-04-29T08:50:06Z")

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“ **backup selective parts** ” - I don’t want to spend 23m waiting for it to snapshot the whole disk with no changes,

Would be grate to tell Kopia “look here I made changes backup those” and in doing so I should consider the part-backup part of the whole disk backup so to not create a another backup inside the same repo with duplicate data". I have 1 repo to backup 1 disk, snapshoting without any changes took 23min and estimate took 11min.