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Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backup: What files changed?

2010-04-01 01:54:43
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backup: What files changed?
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:52:33 -0500
Luis Paulo wrote:
> I was trying to get a way to find what files have changed in an 
> incremental backup.
> Does any one has a solution for it already?
> 
> I've look at /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<host>/backups and to the XferLOG, but 
> i'm getting nowhere.
> I did a manual incremental a few minutes after another, and I get:
> 
>>  echo -e " n   type\tFiles\tExist\tNew\tlevel"; \
>  awk '{print $1," ",$2,"\t",$5,"\t",$7,"\t",$9,"\t",$21}' 
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/portatil/backups
> n  type    Files    Exist    New    level
> 35   incr      36      27      43      4
> 
> Those are the numbers that appears on the GUI. How they relate (or if) 
> with each other I don't know. (btw, It's a level 4 incremental following 
> a level 3)
> 
> But if I count the "create" files on XferLOG.35.z I get *19491* files 
> (15 pool, 11 same, 0 skip, 0 delete).
>>  /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat  
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/portatil/XferLOG.35.z |grep -c "^  create"
> 
> Don't know where to go from here.
> Really appreciate any help.
> 
> EDIT: I look better to the log and its almost all directories
> 
> If I exclude directories, I have 10 create (9 regular, 1 p), 15 pool (10 
> reg, 3 c, 2 l), 11 same. Create files are logs and pid, as expected.
> 
>  > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat  
> /var/lib/backuppc/pc/portatil/XferLOG.31.z |grep "^  create" |grep -v 
> "^  create d"
> 
> Did some tests with other log files and it looks reasonable. Although it 
> don't show what directories were created, its a start. How it relates 
> with backups file values beats me.
> 
> Any one as a better solution, please? Thanks.

For any particular directory you can click the 'history' link while browsing 
the 
backup and see which versions of each file appear in each of your available 
backups.  But this is cumbersome if you want to recurse through a large tree.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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