Re: [OpenAFS] Strange sizes of incremental volume dumps

2009-03-16 Thread Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs
Hi! Thanks to everybody who replied, you've pretty much cleared up the issue. I think for now we will happily accept the additional black matter on our backup server, at least until it reaches a non-negligible mass. Derrick Brashear schrieb: There is a switch to not dump directories which have

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange sizes of incremental volume dumps

2009-03-12 Thread Derrick Brashear
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Sergio Gelato sergio.gel...@astro.su.se wrote: * Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs [2009-03-11 16:30:53 +0100]: Today we noticed that the size of the incremental dumps is non-zero for some volumes which have not changed in quite a while. [...] We found some other

[OpenAFS] Strange sizes of incremental volume dumps

2009-03-11 Thread Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs
Hi. On an OpenAFS Installation here we're doing nightly volume backups with vos backupsys at 0:30 and the backup volumes are dumped during the day with vos dump. There's a monthly level 0 backup without a timestamp, done with /usr/sbin/vos dump -id root.afs.backup -local And after that

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange sizes of incremental volume dumps

2009-03-11 Thread Sergio Gelato
* Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs [2009-03-11 16:30:53 +0100]: Today we noticed that the size of the incremental dumps is non-zero for some volumes which have not changed in quite a while. [...] We found some other volumes that had not changed since March 9th, and there doesn't seem to be a