Re: [rsnapshot-discuss] Problem with incremental backup (FAQ candidate?)

[David C. <da...@ca...>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:58:03PM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> > The question for me is why the backup directories daily.0, daily.1 and daily.2 have similar sizes
> > (around 36 GB). I'm not able to change that amount of files (picture, pdf-documents, etc which makes
> > some thousand files in total) within one day.
> Because, unless you tell it otherwise, du will tell you the size of
> *everything* under each directory.  You have to tell it (as Scott
> posted) to not count hard links multiple times.
>
> You'll find rnapshot-diff helps here.
> 
> (Actually, that's probably a good topic for a FAQ entry - Nathan?)

Done.

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