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#21 tarfile too large

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2003-07-26
2003-07-26
Anonymous
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there is something i dont understand.
"du -h /home/www" reports that the www directory has
a size of 1.1 GB. But the tar file gets larger than the
hole content of my disk !?! about 5 GB!!

does maybe any links couse the error?

the files.conf is w/o errors

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  • hatto

    hatto - 2006-11-26

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    I think I have found a bug which may cause this problem.
    On line 572 (in V. 1.0r3) you find:
    &addToExclude( $_, "$fileName.incl" );
    Obviously that it not correct. I think it should be
    &addToExclude( $_, "$fileName.excl" );
    This bug can have effects only when you use "skip" directives for that archive.

     
  • chadhester

    chadhester - 2009-02-26

    I noticed a similar issue. The directory I backup is about 7 GB, but the tgz file is 64GB!!!

    To review what was backed up, I ran:
    $ tar tfz file.tgz > file.tgz.log

    Sure enough, I found listed *12* copies of EACH file!!!

    Why did this happen? I have no idea.

     

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