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

2010-04-05 09:56:35
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backup: What files changed?
From: Luis Paulo <luis.barbas AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:53:56 +0100
I'm not sure I understand you, but maybe this helps:

I'm not counting files. I'm counting lines starting with "  create" in the backup log
file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<yourhost>/XferLOG.<backupnumber>.z

> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat  /var/lib/backuppc/pc/portatil/XferLOG.35.z |grep -c "^  create"
  19491

If I exclude directories, I have 10 create files/lines  (9 regular, 1 p). The following lists them

> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat  /var/lib/backuppc/pc/portatil/XferLOG.35.z |grep "^  create" |grep -v "^  create d"
  create   644       0/0        1502 dev/.udev/queue.bin
  create   644       0/0       46141 var/lib/DeviceKit-power/history-charge-T12--24-50.dat
  create   644       0/0        2730 var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.br0.leases
  create   644       0/0       10518 var/log/ConsoleKit/history
  create   640     101/4       36033 var/log/auth.log
  create   640     101/4      165433 var/log/daemon.log
  create   640     101/4       10134 var/log/syslog
  create   600       0/0        1310 var/run/ConsoleKit/database
  create   644       0/0         486 var/run/motd
  create p 600   101/103           0 var/run/rsyslog/kmsg

Thank you
Luis
 
The count not only including directories but also the files "attrib". One in
each directory.
I believe your counting (19491 Total files, 10 regular files) can't be
correct. Regular files must be an odd number because count of directories
and attrib files must be an even number.

You can do a "ls -R /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<yourhost>/<backupnumber>"

br
Matthias
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