On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 04:51:51PM +0200, Michael Hoenig wrote:
> Hi
> i recovered a complete directory to test if everything is running fine.
> But there was a big diffrence in the size of the both directories, 
> the dir on the disk is 80 MB big and the dir from the tape is 
> 71 MB big. But both work fine and all files seem to be the same 
> date but not the same size.

Did you compare individual files? What is the result?

Making a backup and restoring it might have optimized files
with holes (longer runs of zeroes within).

> Anybody an idea what happens here? 

Nope. Please compare all files and give more details.
Are _all_ files being shortened?
How many files match, how many don't?

 Ciao
    Dietmar

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