Hi, I think I am facing the same issue here on my laptop.
On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 10:44:15PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > Can you attach a copy of your CACHEDIR.TAG file, please? > > yes, it's attached to this mail, but the content is as follows: > > dummy@sid:~$ sha256sum files/.cache/CACHEDIR.TAG > a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af > files/.cache/CACHEDIR.TAG > dummy@sid:~$ cat files/.cache/CACHEDIR.TAG > Signature: 8a477f597d28d172789f06886806bc55 Mine almost look the same: % find . -name CACHEDIR.TAG |xargs sha256sum a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./Debian/CACHEDIR.TAG a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./Fedora/CACHEDIR.TAG a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./.icedove/CACHEDIR.TAG a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./Grml/CACHEDIR.TAG a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./Videos/CACHEDIR.TAG a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./.mozilla/CACHEDIR.TAG a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./.config/chromium/CACHEDIR.TAG a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./Backup/CACHEDIR.TAG a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./Downloads/CACHEDIR.TAG a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./Android/CACHEDIR.TAG a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./.cache/CACHEDIR.TAG 05e7633fb31bf1f6f8d89020c16b9f24587fdf7638e951c9745b192f5fc3b682 ./.cache/fontconfig/CACHEDIR.TAG a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./.thumbnails/CACHEDIR.TAG a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./Music/CACHEDIR.TAG a6cadd53399872fa9aca8a92b2a96e111a30203e4e8a21f4068d0b960031b3af ./Devel/CACHEDIR.TAG % cat ./.cache/fontconfig/CACHEDIR.TAG Signature: 8a477f597d28d172789f06886806bc55 # This file is a cache directory tag created by fontconfig. # For information about cache directory tags, see: # http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/ > [config] > repository = /home/dummy/backups > root = /home/dummy/files > exclude-caches = yes Mine is: [config] repository = sftp://evgeni@sai/srv/data/Backup/ root = /home/evgeni exclude-caches = yes one-file-system = yes client-name = nana The backup --pretend runs also differ: 1.18.1-1: % obnam backup --pretend Backed up 379360 files (of 432716 found), containing 5.0 GiB. Uploaded 58.0 GiB file data in 2m52s at 345.1 MiB/s average speed. Total download amount 24.0 MiB. Total upload amount 0.0 B. Overhead was 0.0 B (0.0 %). obnam backup --pretend 148.86s user 9.23s system 91% cpu 2:52.69 total 1.17-1: % obnam backup --pretend Backed up 1243 files (of 54599 found), containing 5.0 GiB. Uploaded 585.0 MiB file data in 28s at 21.1 MiB/s average speed. Total download amount 24.0 MiB. Total upload amount 0.0 B. Overhead was 0.0 B (0.0 %). obnam backup --pretend 25.60s user 0.93s system 94% cpu 27.996 total And yes, 1.18.1 seems to actually upload 58GiB of data (at least my backup LV run out of space but had about 20GiB free before) when I tried a real backup. What I find interesting that "containing 5GiB" is present in both runs. Greets Evgeni