It might be that some file is triggering a bug in the backup code… could you try shuffling files out of your home directory temporarily to see if any of them are causing the problem? Not sure how many files you have in there, but you could move half of them out, try the backup, swap the halves, and see if you get similar behavior both times. The fact that the percentages are different each time is odd, but I’m not sure if the backup order is deterministic (I’m aware that some OS-level operations return directory contents in non-deterministic orders, but I’m assuming that the backup tool is written in Python so it might be getting a sorted list… IDK).
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