That file is a hardlink, not a symlink. In the backup stats, each instance of a hardlink is counted towards the total file size.
If your file system has a lot of hardlinks, perhaps that's why the reported number is higher than you expect? Craig On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:40 AM Ján ONDREJ (SAL) <ondr...@salstar.sk> wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 12:08:50AM -0700, Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users > wrote: > > Does your backup include sparse files? > > I think no. > > > Look in the XferLOG file to see the sizes of individual files - it > > shouldn't be too hard to spot one that is large. > > There is no one large file. As I wrote, restored backup is not so large > too. > But you pointed me to right plate. I see this line in XferLOG: > > new recv hf..tpog... rw-r--r-- 1000, 1000 25089367 > var/www/public/media/598522/catalogue.pdf => > var/www/private/import/docs/catalogue.pdf > > This is a symlink and it's size is counted as 25089367. > According to "=>" symbol, this symlink is properly identified as symlink, > but it's size is stored as symlinks target file. This is why backup > size is larger than my filesystem. Can this be fixed? > > SAL > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 11:51 PM Ján ONDREJ (SAL) <ondr...@salstar.sk> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am using BackupPC for years, but after update to v4 (4.4.0), some > > > backups have inconsistent size dislayed in "File Size/Count Reuse > Summary" > > > table. > > > > > > This is my servers directory, which should be in backup: > > > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > > /dev/md0 4.0G 3.0G 1.1G 75% / > > > /dev/mapper/vg_server-www 200G 119G 82G 60% /var/www > > > > > > There is no other filesystem mounted, binded to this directory. > > > > > > It's complete size is 200 GB, used only 118 GB. Some files are excluded > > > from > > > backup, so an full backup should be about 120 GB uncompressed, after > > > compression less. But our File Size table looks like: > > > > > > Totals Existing Files New Files > > > Backup# Type #Files Size/MiB MiB/sec #Files Size/MiB #Files > Size/MiB > > > 0 full 3220584 943488.6 26.86 2625461 872577.7 1232 537.4 > > > > > > As you see, this backup total size is 921 GiB. How it's possible, that > > > an 200 GB partition is stored as 900 GB? > > > Also according to i-nodes in linux, my server has: > > > > > > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > > > /dev/md0 4194240 51082 4143158 2% / > > > /dev/mapper/vg_fusion-www 209715200 2470434 207244766 2% /var/www > > > > > > So there is 2.5 millions of files, some excluded, but results as 3.2 > > > millions > > > on backup. > > > > > > Trying to restore files. Restore downloaded a 68GB tar package. > > > This looks to be real, but if there are only 70 GB of data, why on > backuppc > > > status it's displayed as 900 GB? > > > > > > I need to find, which server is using most of my backup space. > > > I know, that it's hard to find, because files are shared between > servers > > > (deduplicated), but at least I can estimate it. But if there are > multiples > > > of usage displayed in statistics, then it's impossible to aproximate. > > > > > > I deleted all backups of this server, in hope, that it helps, but > don't. > > > :-( > > > > > > Thank for help. > > > > > > SAL > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > BackupPC-users mailing list > > > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > > > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > > > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BackupPC-users mailing list > > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ >
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