BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure

2008-06-24 02:05:58
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental directory structure
From: Craig Barratt <cbarratt AT users.sourceforge DOT net>
To: Christoph Litauer <litauer AT uni-koblenz DOT de>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:05:45 -0700
Christoph writes:

> If I take a look on the structure of incrementals, I can see lots of
> empty directories. It seems as if the whole directory structure of the
> backup-source is kind of "duplicated" to the backup disk - although most
> of the directories (and the files in them) are unchanged.
> This leads to _lots_ of files/directories on the backuppc-disk (about 20
> million now). Is it necessary?

Yes - the directory structure needs to be complete, even for
an incremental.  The storage used should be small.

Craig

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