Duplicati vs. Duplicacy (video)

[Usefulvid]

Same video in german.

[Christoph]

Regarding resuming backups: even though duplicacy is better than duplicati, we have to be honest that that’s not so difficult to achieve since, as you point out, duplicati doesn’t resume at all. But there is room for improvement with how duplicacy resumes too:

Resuming interrupted backup takes hours (incomplete snapshots should be saved)

In the process of creating the initial backup of a large (1TB+) repository, I noticed that whenever I interrupted (i.e. stopped) the backup process, resuming the backup afterwards takes increasingly long time. From what I understand, this is because duplicacy has no index of all previously uploaded files and therefore has to “discover” what chunks already exist, until it finds some that it actually still needs to upload. But I wonder whether it is correct that this literally takes hours (almost…

[Usefulvid]

Ok I see, still some work to do
Did I got it right that only windows is affected?
I was testing on a Linux based system and never had such an issue.

[Christoph]

Did I got it right that only windows is affected?

I’m using Windows, but I don’t see why duplicacy would operate any differently on another OS, so I’d say, no, this problem is not specific to Windows.