Hello Ludwig,

from the docker docs:

"This is indicated by the fact that the Data loop file and a Metadata
loop file are on files under /var/lib/docker/devicemapper. These are
loopback-mounted sparse files."

Sparse files are really a problem to backup and restore.

Regards

Stefan

Am 23.10.2017 um 21:03 schrieb Ludwig Waigel:
> Hello Stefan,
>
> the machine has only one partition so it is hard to choose the wrong one. 
>
> Meanwhile I found the issue systematically excluding certain directories from 
> the restoring process until it ran through.
>
> The server in question is using docker which some time ago has been migrated 
> to the latest version. However, the old version was using devicemapper as a 
> storage driver whereas the new version is using overlays.
>
> Long story short, within the backup the file 
> "/var/lib/docker/devicemapper/devicemapper/data" had a size about 160GB. The 
> original file that has been backuped had some 5GB.
>
> What is beyond me is the fact that the original 5GB file got backuped up 
> being 160GB in total and being restored as such.
>
> Cheers,
> Ludwig
>

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