# Filter group has incredibly bad performance
**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/filter-group-has-incredibly-bad-performance/4715
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 22, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/filter-group-has-incredibly-bad-performance/4715 "2018-09-22T10:09:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Gabriel\_Ambuehl](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/Gabriel_Ambuehl)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/filter-group-has-incredibly-bad-performance/4715/1 "2018-09-22T10:09:53Z")
Doing a backup over my roughly 30GB, 30’000 profile (all living on a fast SSD) with filter group default excludes takes roughly 12 minutes, at least 80% of which is spent counting files (counter goes up by about 50-100 files per second.
If I kick out filter group default excludes and just a have a bunch of excluded directories otherwise, it goes down to 2-3 minutes, most of which is spent checking backend files (which I guess cannot be avoided given duplicati’s architecture).
It definitely feels like there is something seriously wrong in the filter group code.
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### Author:  [@SirFritz](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/SirFritz)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/filter-group-has-incredibly-bad-performance/4715/2 "2018-10-05T13:36:39Z")
Wow. I just removed both System Files and Temporary Files filter groups and it dropped my backup time down from 10 minutes to 2 minutes.
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### Author:  [@Monstergerm](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/Monstergerm)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/filter-group-has-incredibly-bad-performance/4715/3 "2019-08-24T01:04:56Z")
Looks like this is still not fixed one year later in 2.0.4.23 beta!
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### Author:  [@drwtsn32](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/drwtsn32)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2019, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/filter-group-has-incredibly-bad-performance/4715/4 "2019-08-24T01:15:45Z")
See my reply to your post in that other thread…
> [@Duplicati 2.0.4.5\_beta much slower than 2.0.3.3\_beta](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/duplicati-2-0-4-5-beta-much-slower-than-2-0-3-3-beta/5536/19):
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> 2.0.4.23 has only one change from 2.0.4.5 - a warning for Amazon Cloud Drive users. It’s unfortunate that it was given this version label. Looks like this may have been resolved in 2.0.4.10, according to [https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati/issues/3395](https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati/issues/3395) If you are willing to go to a Canary release, version 2.0.4.22 contains this and other fixes not included in 2.0.4.5 (or 2.0.4.23).