diff --git a/internal/archiver/archiver.go b/internal/archiver/archiver.go
index 77ddba7c4..63a1691b3 100644
--- a/internal/archiver/archiver.go
+++ b/internal/archiver/archiver.go
@@ -188,6 +188,12 @@ func (arch *Archiver) nodeFromFileInfo(snPath, filename string, fi os.FileInfo)
 	if !arch.WithAtime {
 		node.AccessTime = node.ModTime
 	}
+	if node.Links == 1 || node.Type == "dir" {
+		// the DeviceID is only necessary for hardlinked files
+		// when using subvolumes or snapshots their deviceIDs tend to change which causes
+		// restic to upload new tree blobs
+		node.DeviceID = 0
+	}
 	// overwrite name to match that within the snapshot
 	node.Name = path.Base(snPath)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/internal/archiver/archiver_test.go b/internal/archiver/archiver_test.go
index 46ef44251..3d50e555f 100644
--- a/internal/archiver/archiver_test.go
+++ b/internal/archiver/archiver_test.go
@@ -2153,6 +2153,7 @@ func TestMetadataChanged(t *testing.T) {
 	sn, node2 := snapshot(t, repo, fs, nil, "testfile")
 
 	// set some values so we can then compare the nodes
+	want.DeviceID = 0
 	want.Content = node2.Content
 	want.Path = ""
 	if len(want.ExtendedAttributes) == 0 {
diff --git a/internal/restic/node.go b/internal/restic/node.go
index cbe9ef363..e7688aada 100644
--- a/internal/restic/node.go
+++ b/internal/restic/node.go
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ type Node struct {
 	User       string      `json:"user,omitempty"`
 	Group      string      `json:"group,omitempty"`
 	Inode      uint64      `json:"inode,omitempty"`
-	DeviceID   uint64      `json:"device_id,omitempty"` // device id of the file, stat.st_dev
+	DeviceID   uint64      `json:"device_id,omitempty"` // device id of the file, stat.st_dev, only stored for hardlinks
 	Size       uint64      `json:"size,omitempty"`
 	Links      uint64      `json:"links,omitempty"`
 	LinkTarget string      `json:"linktarget,omitempty"`