Hello Stefan,
I understand that v3 and v4 work differently. However, I can also
reproduce this behavior when the two hosts have no history of backups at
all.
Starting with the first full backup, the size difference is shown. I
have other hosts where this problem does not occur, however I cannot
find the difference.
That's interesting. Can you check sizes in parallel?
Going from top to bottom, comparing the biggest directories first,
entering the one that shows the biggest size diff, etc.?
If there is a big difference, I do not really understand how you cannot
find at least one particular file or dir co-responsible for that
difference.
It takes some time, of course, but since this happens only on some of your
hosts, I suspect you can solve the mistery only by hunting this down on
these affected hosts.
The affected hosts do not have particularly large sparse files, they do
not have bind mounts, no excessive number of hard links.
What if you start back-ups repeatedly from scratch (and at the same
time...), but increasing steadily the dirs you do backup?
I'd probably start only with /home, excluding /tmp, /mnt/, /var/, ...
Would you still see size differences...?
Btw: what's your set-up, do you have different servers for BacupPC v3 and
Backup PC v4?
Thanks,
Iosif Fettich
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