Stuck on "Starting …"

[kenkendk]

@NoLooseEnds

So far it’s much faster starting up, but it looks like it spends a lot of time “Verifying backend data …”. Not sure if it’s possible to optimize any further?

The initial check is just a listing of the remote files, and should be pretty fast.

There is another verification at the end, where it downloads a random volume and checks it for consistency, which can be slow due to the network transfer.

There is more on how to fiddle with this here:

How often does duplicati test your backup archives?

Duplicati uses two levels of verification. Before doing anything, it lists all the remote files and checks that all files are found and have the correct size. It also checks that there are no new files. There is a feature request to also check the remote files against an MD5 or SHA-1 sum if the storage provider reports it. The second step is actually downloading a file and testing that it can be decrypted, decompressed and that its contents are as expected. This is done with a random sampling …