Why is UrBackup hashing files when all is set to "raw"?

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Why is UrBackup hashing files when all is set to “raw”? I set things to"raw" because I am trying to conserve CPU and I have tons of disk space available.

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I’d like an answer to this as well.

Same issue my CPU has been pegged now that we have over 50 systems on this machine but we have more than enough storage to just do Raw backups

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Below is from a debug log, it states that it is doing the transfer without hashing, however it may be that the files are hashed so that they can be compared to during incremental backups?

2019-07-13 13:23:41: BCSS-XXXX: Doing backup without hashed transfer…
2019-07-13 13:23:41: BCSS-XXXX: Loading file list…
2019-07-13 13:23:41: Flushing FileClient…
2019-07-13 13:23:43: Flushing FileClient…
2019-07-13 13:23:43: Flushing FileClient…
2019-07-13 13:23:43: BCSS-XXXX: Started loading files…
2019-07-13 13:23:46: Starting shadowcopy “C”.
2019-07-13 13:23:46: Loading file “BOOTNXT”
2019-07-13 13:23:46: Flushing FileClient…
2019-07-13 13:23:46: GT: Loaded file “BOOTNXT”
2019-07-13 13:23:46: PT: Hashing file “BOOTNXT”
2019-07-13 13:23:46: Loading file “CCCP-20151102_1349.txt”
2019-07-13 13:23:46: HT: Copying file: “/RAID10/UrBackup/BCSS-XXXX/190713-1301/C/BOOTNXT”
2019-07-13 13:23:46: GT: Loaded file “CCCP-20151102_1349.txt”
2019-07-13 13:23:46: HT: Copying file to “/RAID10/UrBackup/BCSS-XXXX/190713-1301/C/BOOTNXT”
2019-07-13 13:23:46: PT: Hashing file “CCCP-20151102_1349.txt”
2019-07-13 13:23:46: Loading file “CiscoUserAgent.sdf”

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I know this is an old post but I have the same question.

Is it possible to do incremental backups without hashing (no hashing at all - even on server side)?

I do internet mode incremental only backups of SQL DB backup files.
The files are big and they never change. They are kept for two weeks and then deleted.
The hashing on backup server side takes too long as my storage backend is slow.

Thank you.

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I don’t think you can disable hashing for deduplication.

If you don’t want a file history why not use rsync instead of urbackup?

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As Urbackup is used for the rest, I don’t want another software/protocol/etc.
But as these files never change and are kept for a limited time only, it will be good if I’m able to disable hashing for them.
I understand this is a completely different type of backup but still looking for such option.