Tuning Kopia Snapshots to Use Bigger Files?

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Hi, is there a way to tune Kopia to chunk the backups into bigger files (e.g. 1GB instead of 25MB)?

The idea is to have less files like what I could do with Duplicati, thanks!

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I’d suggest reading this post… https://github.com/kopia/kopia/issues/2202

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Thanks, sounds like I’ll have to bear with the amount of small files

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I have resized the files on one of my repos with success, I also wanted my S3 endpoint to have less objects, and it eats a bit of ram on the machine doing “maintenance” on the repo to grab a number of smaller files and making fewer bigger ones, but it did work for me.

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I even don’t know, why anyone would bother with the number of files on a S3 repo in particular… S3 has been desingned to handle that - but there are filesystems that tend to get bogged down by too many files in a folder. In that case, I’d rather change the sharding than the filesize. Bigger blob sizes must also mean more traffic, when it comes to blob re-writing and thst’s definitively something I’d want to keep as low as possible. Have you checked your repo for that after the change to larger blob sizes?