On 01/21 12:36 , Udo Rader wrote:
> As it seems, I have found the reason/a partial solution for the
> behaviour. Maybe some others can benefit from it, so I am sharing it to
> the list.
>
> Thoroughly investigating the logs, I found that my configuration for
> localhost was missing those two essential options:
>
> # remove extra shell escapes ($fileList+ etc.) that are
> # needed for remote backups but may break local ones
> $Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList';
> $Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList';
>
> without those options, tar would not treat the $incrDate correctly and
> instead use a date that caused a full backup to be performed instead of
> an incremental one.
>
> Adding those two options made incremental backups a lot faster now, they
> only take about 1 to 2 hours now.
Thanks for the followup, it's appreciated by those who will come after you.
:)
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