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backintime gets slower with new incremental backups #1132

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Should it not get faster?

myuser@homeserver:~$ time sudo -i backintime --config /home/myuser/.backintime backup

Back In Time
Version: 1.1.12

Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

INFO: Lock
INFO: Take a new snapshot. Profile: 1 Main profile
INFO: Call rsync to take the snapshot
INFO: [qt4systrayicon] begin loop
INFO: Save config file
INFO: Save permissions
INFO: Create info file
INFO: Keep min free disk space: 51200 MiB
INFO: Keep min 2% free inodes
INFO: Unlock

real	61m28,234s
user	26m34,136s
sys	12m38,644s
myuser@homeserver:~$ INFO: [qt4systrayicon] end loop

myuser@homeserver:~$ time sudo -i backintime --config /home/myuser/.backintime backup
[sudo] password for myuser: 

Back In Time
Version: 1.1.12

Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

INFO: Lock
INFO: Take a new snapshot. Profile: 1 Main profile
INFO: Compare with old snapshot: 20210210-084908-645
INFO: [qt4systrayicon] begin loop
INFO: Nothing changed, no back needed
WARNING: No new snapshot
INFO: Keep min free disk space: 51200 MiB
INFO: Keep min 2% free inodes
INFO: Unlock

real	11m43,800s
user	0m53,257s
sys	1m42,319s
myuser@homeserver:~$ INFO: [qt4systrayicon] end loop

myuser@homeserver:~$ time sudo -i backintime --config /home/myuser/.backintime backup

Back In Time
Version: 1.1.12

Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

INFO: Lock
INFO: Take a new snapshot. Profile: 1 Main profile
INFO: Compare with old snapshot: 20210210-124522-910
INFO: [qt4systrayicon] begin loop
INFO: Create hard-links

INFO: Call rsync to take the snapshot

INFO: Save config file
INFO: Save permissions

INFO: Create info file

INFO: Keep min free disk space: 51200 MiB
INFO: Keep min 2% free inodes
INFO: Unlock

real	95m5,678s
user	6m17,439s
sys	10m43,666s
myuser@homeserver:~$ time sudo -i backintime --config /home/myuser/.backintime backup

Back In Time
Version: 1.1.12

Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

INFO: Lock
INFO: Take a new snapshot. Profile: 1 Main profile
INFO: Compare with old snapshot: 20210210-142120-416
INFO: [qt4systrayicon] begin loop

INFO: Create hard-links

INFO: Call rsync to take the snapshot

INFO: Save config file
INFO: Save permissions

INFO: Create info file

INFO: Keep min free disk space: 51200 MiB
INFO: Keep min 2% free inodes
INFO: Unlock

real	87m9,941s
user	6m7,641s
sys	10m29,359s

myuser@homeserver:~$ time sudo du -h --max-depth=1 /media/backup/backintime/homeserver/root/1/
132G	/media/backup/backintime/homeserver/root/1/20210210-142120-416
2,1G	/media/backup/backintime/homeserver/root/1/20210210-161749-696
1,9G	/media/backup/backintime/homeserver/root/1/20210210-084908-645
1,5G	/media/backup/backintime/homeserver/root/1/20210210-124522-910
138G	/media/backup/backintime/homeserver/root/1/

real	55m36,073s
user	0m44,389s
sys	4m0,430s

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