Seather wrote: > Hi there, > > When I run an rdiff-backup --list-increment-sizes, the output seems to > be reversed. Am I perhaps missing something or confused about how this > works? In my output that I have pasted below, the "Cumulative size" > field decreases as the date increases. This doesn't make any sense to > me. Now if it was the other way around, I could understand that?
The dates are to be thought of as backup sets, not "size as of" dates. It should be read as: "All of the backup sets until time <Time> require a total storage space of <Cumulative size> and the backup set at time <Time> uses up <Size> bytes of storage." Think about it this way: to store the Sun Oct 8 backup set, you need 1.56 GB of space (since it is the current mirror). Storing the Oct 7 backup set requires an additional 9.12 MB, for a total space of 1.57 GB. If you deleted the backups from Oct 3 to July 27, you would save: 2.31 GB - 1.60 GB = 710 MB You just have to remember how rdiff-backup stores it's data: current mirror + reverse deltas. Andrew > server ~ # rdiff-backup --list-increment-sizes rdiffbackups > Time Size Cumulative size > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sun Oct 8 06:45:32 2006 1.56 GB 1.56 GB (current > mirror) > Sat Oct 7 06:45:31 2006 9.12 MB 1.57 GB > Fri Oct 6 06:45:30 2006 2.47 MB 1.57 GB -- Andrew Ferguson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
