Re: Archive contents analysis

Bruno Cornec <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mondo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Tomas,

Tomas Kopal said on Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:19:41PM +0200:
>I am using mondorescue for couple of years now (so far just for backup,
>restore only when testing archive, fortunately :-) ), it's a great piece
>of software, thanks a lot.

You're welcome !!

>Recently, my archives grew quite fast out of proportions, and I don't
>know why. Does anyone has any recommendation how to analyze archive
>content based on size?

Well, generally this is due to log files growing, new apps installed, new data managed, ...
Personaly I do the analysis on the original system with du -sh /* e.g. to start with and then go deeper in the tree to find where the "issue" is.

>Mondorescue in interactive mode shows me the contents, but not the size
>(e.g. accumulated size for folders), so that's not really usable. Is the
>size in some of the indexes on the media, so I can analyze that (using
>e.g. some simple script)? Or any other hint where to start looking?

The only info given is around big files in the log or in the archives/biggielist.txt on the media.
You may indeed have new big files (sparse files are perfect candidates, think to -R option then)
Indeed there is no size kept for directories, because that's not used internally either.

Sorry for not being more helpful here
Bruno.
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