Two comparable backups, huge duration differences

Did you mean to say the slow one has a lot more? Regardless, I think there’s no verbosity that gives per-file information on changed data, however there is a way to see what files are being added, deleted, or changed.

The COMPARE command

Sample output:

Listing changes
  1: 11/20/2018 8:41:59 AM
  0: 11/21/2018 10:02:18 AM

Size of backup 1: 343.77 MB

  1 added entries:
  + C:\Users\Ted\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rsbrp398.default-1528892271354\bookmarkbackups\bookmarks-2018-11-21_1422_1kdKfrSWi29YPJOva1+VJg==.jsonlz4

  5 modified entries:
  ~ C:\Users\Ted\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rsbrp398.default-1528892271354\bookmarkbackups\
  ~ C:\Users\Ted\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rsbrp398.default-1528892271354\sessionstore-backups\
  ~ C:\Users\Ted\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rsbrp398.default-1528892271354\sessionstore-backups\previous.jsonlz4
  ~ C:\Users\Ted\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rsbrp398.default-1528892271354\sessionstore-backups\recovery.baklz4
  ~ C:\Users\Ted\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rsbrp398.default-1528892271354\sessionstore-backups\recovery.jsonlz4

1 deleted entries:
  - C:\Users\Ted\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rsbrp398.default-1528892271354\bookmarkbackups\bookmarks-2018-11-20_1422_1kdKfrSWi29YPJOva1+VJg==.jsonlz4


  Added files:       1
  Deleted files:     1
  Modified folders:  2
  Modified files:    3
Size of backup 0: 343.67 MB

and then you must guess which files were the offenders in making a big upload. Note that the backup is on a file-block basis, and only changed blocks are uploaded. Unchanged blocks from old backups are referenced.

EDIT: A nicer web-UI-Commandline version from @kees-z (thanks!) of running a compare just went up here, for someone wanting basically the same thing (or at least giving them something that comes kind of close…).