On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:55:47PM -0700, Jack Bowling wrote: > > I am doing backups with a similar hard links-based technique and I > > have a question: How can I tell how much space one of my backups > > takes? I can't do a "du one_of_several_backups -s" because the hard > > links make all the files real in there, even though they are possibly > > shared with adjacent incremental backups. Ideas? > > Theoretically, the space used will be the size of all the copied files > plus that of the increments. I can't see how it could be any greater.
I don't remember saying it was greater, I want to know how big one backup is. Let me give and example. Let's say I have: - initial backup - incremental backup 1 - incremental backup 2 - incremental backup 3 - incremental backup 4 These backups share common files via hard links. How much space does backup 2 take? Or, put another way, how much space will I recover if I delete backup 2? -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
