Hello! I have a BackupPC server that is currently running out of drive space. Currently, we are backing up both the servers and the workstations all to one, single machine. The problem is that I'm re
Author: Pieter Wuille <sipa AT users.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:38:15 +0100
Yes, this is possible to determine. By default, the "du" system utility will count files occurring more than once in a set of directories only once. if you use this three times: cd /var/lib/backuppc/
Excellent. You're right, du is going to take a loooooonnnnnnnngggggggggggggg time, but if it'll keep track, that works great. And that was about what I was expecting on the copy - space may be tricky