Re: Archive contents analysis

Tomas Kopal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mondo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/06/18 11:41, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> Hello Tomas,
>
>
>> 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.
>
Unfortunately, the original system is quite hard to analyze, as it is a
collection of multiple virtual machines, backed up via lvm snapshots,
and with quite an extensive list of ignored files and folders.
>> 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.

No problem, thanks for a quick response anyway. Fortunately I don't need
to do this often :-).

Thanks and good luck

Tomas

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