# Disk full during restore

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/disk-full-during-restore/20923
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 21, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/disk-full-during-restore/20923 "2025-07-21T12:46:58Z")
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### Author: ![ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/ts678)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/disk-full-during-restore/20923/2 "2025-07-22T21:28:55Z")

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[Blog post: Cut restore times by 3.8x - A deep dive into our new restore flow](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/blog-post-cut-restore-times-by-3-8x-a-deep-dive-into-our-new-restore-flow/20415)  
talks about the new design. You can try to look at that while waiting for devs.

> [@Blog post: Cut restore times by 3.8x - A deep dive into our new restore flow](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/blog-post-cut-restore-times-by-3-8x-a-deep-dive-into-our-new-restore-flow/20415/1):
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> For systems with limited memory and disk space, we provide tunable parameters to control the size of the caches.

but [Cache](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/blog-post-cut-restore-times-by-3-8x-a-deep-dive-into-our-new-restore-flow/20415#p-76617-cache-10) seems to only let one tune the block cache (memory), not the volume cache.

> [@gdassieu](#):
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> Of course I’ll retry with a larger disk

> [@Blog post: Cut restore times by 3.8x - A deep dive into our new restore flow](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/blog-post-cut-restore-times-by-3-8x-a-deep-dive-into-our-new-restore-flow/20415/1):
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> `--restore-legacy=false`: Toggles whether to use the legacy restore flow. The default is false, enabling the new restore flow.

is another option. also [mentioned](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/release-2-1-1-0-experimental-2025-07-17/20903#p-78580-new-restore-flow-5) in the 2.1.1.0 Experimental release notice, as in Canary.

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