Re: Archive contents analysis
Tomas Kopal <[email protected]>
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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Mondo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mondo-devel