BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool size discrepancy?

2013-08-19 11:44:28
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool size discrepancy?
From: Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey AT BUC DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:27:36 -0400
On 8/16/2013 8:28 PM, Kris Lou wrote:
> I recently started paying attention to the size of my pool - and I'm 
> wondering about a few discrepancies:
>
> From the "Host Summary" page -
>
>   * 38 full backups of total size 1044.30GB (prior to pooling and
>     compression),
>   * 70 incr backups of total size 379.71GB (prior to pooling and
>     compression).
>

This is telling you how much information was actually backed up.

> From the main "Status" page -
>
>   * Pool is 636.95GB comprising 991000 files and 4369 directories (as
>     of 8/16 01:06),
>

This is telling you how much room BackupPC is using to store it after 
compression and pooling.

> And the ugly part is that I have my TopDir mounted via NFS.  But when 
> I look at the size of the NFS share directly on my NAS, it reads as 
> 1.5+TB!!
>
> I have Compression enabled (3), and ran BackupPC_Nightly recently 
> (after cleaning out some old hosts this week).
>
> Can somebody help me understand this?

Is there anything else on that NFS share other than the BackupPC pool?

-- 
Bowie

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