On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:35:41AM -0400, Kent Borg wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:23:39AM -0700, Jack Bowling wrote: > > I think backup methods are determined by your level of paranoia. For > > myself, I use a dedicated backup hard drive and rsnapshot > > http://rsnapshot.sourceforge.net for doing the grunt work. > > I am doing backups with a similar hard links-based technique and I > have a question: How can I tell how much space one of my backups > takes? I can't do a "du one_of_several_backups -s" because the hard > links make all the files real in there, even though they are possibly > shared with adjacent incremental backups. Ideas?
Theoretically, the space used will be the size of all the copied files plus that of the increments. I can't see how it could be any greater. -- Jack Bowling mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
