How do I pick a Linux backup tool with versioning for a home server?

[Noah_H]

I’ve been trying to find a good local backup solution for my home server that can handle versioning and runs on Linux. I’ve been testing a few, but I’m not sure if my setup is right because the initial backup seems to take forever even over a direct gigabit connection.

[Sophia.R]

I have used restic on a linux home server and it does versioning but the first backup was slow even on gigabit the data set felt small but the tool scanned everything

[Aria.D]

I did a real world trial and split the backup into a full then incremental passes and the first pass took forever but the next ones got quicker as the file changes were smaller

[DanielZT]

Could the issue be the number of tiny files or the destination drive slow write speed?

[Hannah_L]

I tried a dry run with a tiny subset and watched CPU and disk wait times and it matched the slow pace for the full set but the delta was okay later