On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 01:26:00PM -0400, dan moylan wrote: > > dan ritter writes: > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 11:48:52AM -0400, dan moylan wrote: > > > > looking at the sizes of the directories created by > > > backintime i am puzzled by a directory which shows up as > > > 86M in one instance and 35G in another. can someone > > > please explain what's going on. > > > I don't know backintime, but I'm guessing it uses links to > > do file-level snapshots. Bet there's a FAQ. > > yes, true enough, and i understand that. it's the performance > of du that i don't understand -- look at the two cases:
.... > now why is that? Because hardlinks. Explained in a FAQ. I googled "backintime faq" and got a faq which said to try this: du -hd1 /media/<USER>/backintime/<HOST>/<USER>/1/ -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
