Things are not as they appear. Files in today's backup that haven't changed since yesterday are merely hard-linked, so they take no significant disk space.
Go to the directory that contains all of your daily dirvish images for a particular server, and try this: # du -csh * My server reports: 2.6G 20080308 8.5M 20080309 2.2M 20080310 3.7M 20080311 3.7M 20080312 3.7M 20080313 3.7M 20080314 12M 20080315 3.7M 20080316 16M 20080317 3.7M 20080318 3.7M 20080319 11M 20080320 11M 20080321 12K dirvish 2.7G total Now try: # du -csh 20080320 My server reports: 2.6G 20080320 2.6G total But wait... just above it told me that the 20080320 backup only took 11M. That's because in the first du command, most of the files had already been counted in their earlier directories Check-out the Dirvish FAQ list at http://dirvish.org/FAQ.html or Keith L's PowerPoint presentation. It will make more sense once you get used to it. -dP -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jens Lang Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 1:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dirvish] Full backup every time Hi, what could be the reason that dirvish make a full backup every time I start the backup? I am running the lates Ubuntu on both, client and server. _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
