Hi there,
On Sun, 27 Feb 2022, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Sunday, February 27, 2022 12:20 AM +0000 Chris Wu wrote:
Is there one way to know how much disk space has been used for backups of
each client PC?
No, because of de-duplication.
...
Mr. Porter might be putting it a little strongly but I think basically
he's correct.
One might imagine for example measuring the total space consumed by
all backups, then deleting all backups for a client, then measuring it
again, but it's difficult to see how anyone would recommend that. The
thread entitled "How to remove a PC and its backups" which you started
last week should have given you food for thought.
One might also set up a second pool, add to it all machines except one
(or even *only* one machine), and then measure the size of that pool.
These would give different numbers, and they might not be the numbers
that you want to know.
If you did not have a rough idea of the numbers for each machine, and
thus have a fairly good idea of what you were going to be asking the
backup system to do to begin with, it would have been difficult even
to estimate the storage capacity that would be needed when BackupPC
was run for the first time.
Is there a problem that you're trying to solve? If so, what is it?
--
73,
Ged.
_______________________________________________
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/
