Alan McKay wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay AT gmail DOT com>  
> wrote:
>>> let me rephrase that. If your XferLOG.0.z is really 101GB long,  
>>> there is
>>> either something seriously wrong, you are backing up an insane  
>>> amount of data,
>>> or your path names are all ridiculously long. I would guess  
>>> something is very
>>> wrong, so I'd start looking here (though obviously not through the  
>>> web
>>
>> So what am I looking for?  There is an awful lot of info in there.
>> Is there some text I can grep for which indicates error messages or
>> something?
>
> Any further guidance here?   I'm definitely not going to go wading
> through a 100Gb log file without any further guidance on what to look
> for.  If I can't figure this out I'll probably just nuke BackupPC and
> write a few scripts to use rsync to do the job, along with one of the
> programs I found to traverse the HD and hard-link dup files..
>
> I'm a seasoned Linux/UNIX guy and not the least bit shy of a bit of
> debugging.   But I'm still not going to go blindly wading through a
> 100Gb log file.

I wouldn't know how others on this list could blindly wade through a  
100 GB compressed logfile on your machine. All we know is that it's  
huge and shouldn't be that big if everything was OK. Have you tried  
taking a look at the contents of this file using something like less  
(I wouldn't try to open it in a text editor)? Maybe the first look at  
the contents reveals the problem.

Nils Breunese.

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