>>>>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:00:24 +0000, Borut Rozman via Bacula-users said: > > The underlying storage is ~800gb in size. All of the sudden incremental > backups started to increase exponentially > > 1.4. - 93M > 2.4. - 574.5M > 3.4. - 115.5GB > 4.4. - 951.3GB > 5.4. - 1.7TB > 6.4. - 2.5TB > 7.4. - 3.4TB > 8.4. - 4.1TB > 9.4. - 4.7TB > 10.4.- 5.4TB > > so last backup says 5,471,496,436,363 (5.471 TB) written, and last 4 > backups from this client with several others were written to this tape > which is LTO6 - so max 2.5TB should be written (6.25 compressed). > > For some reason estimation of the size of the backup is way off and > data written on the tape as now that tape says it has 18T written - > Vol. bytes 18.3TB > > which is absolutely wrong... > > even if I move that data to some other folder on that server I get the > same result. > > Any ideas?
Does the bconsole estimate command also show the same effect? Maybe you are backing up a sparse file? You could look for large files using /usr/bin/find with the -size option. __Martin _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
