# The incremental backup process is slow **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [November 7, 2022, 3:13am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/the-incremental-backup-process-is-slow/1553 "2022-11-07T03:13:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@ray](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/ray)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 3:13am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/the-incremental-backup-process-is-slow/1553/1 "2022-11-07T03:13:08Z")
We create a snapshot for a big directory(about 28.9T) the full copy take more than one day, after the full copy is done, we try to test the incremental copy speed after 2 days, we use the default parameter: kopia snapshot create xxx but it seems the incremental copy take much long times, it running more than 16 hours: 0 hashing, 128578 hashed (203.5 GB), 48060696 cached (28.7 TB), uploaded 44.1 GB (192 errors ignored), estimating… we plan to backup the directory every 6 hours, but it seems the incremental copy takes too long time, is there any way to improve it so we can backup the directory in time? ---
**Author:** ![saviodsouza](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/saviodsouza/32/50_2.png) [@saviodsouza](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/saviodsouza)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/the-incremental-backup-process-is-slow/1553/2 "2022-11-09T02:55:46Z")
Hi @ray, Can you share some more details on the setup you have? - basic config of the device running kopia - Operating systems used - Anti virus if any - HDD or SSD - Backend storage: krs/Samba/nfs/SFTP/ftp/rclone - internet/network speed if you use remote backups - defined compression policy if any This would help to answer your questions better. Sd ---
**Author:** ![budy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/budy/32/38_2.png) [@budy](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/budy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 8:21am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/the-incremental-backup-process-is-slow/1553/3 "2022-11-10T08:21:33Z")
Depending on how your data is organized, you will probably need to parallelize your snapshots. E.g., we are snapshotting a 77TB Samba server, which holds approx 400 shares in shy of an hour, by parallelizing and running a separate job for each share. Running on a dual 10 core CPU, we spin up up to 15 seperate snapshot jobs at once.