BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Existing files in an empty pool

2013-08-28 09:04:39
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Existing files in an empty pool
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:02:35 -0500
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Andy Taylor <andy AT tayble DOT com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your reply Les. I did a bit more digging and it turns out the
> 'New Files' count includes new 'attrib' files which BackupPC creates. I
> just ran this from the pc/example.hostname/0 directory:
>
> find . -name 'attrib' | wc -l
>
> Which returned 2501. If I do the following calculation:
>
> Total files + New attrib files - Existing files
>
> so in this case,
>
> 3184 + 2501 - 673
>
> I get 5012, the same as the 'New Files' count.
>
> So it would seem that the 'Totals' file count only includes files from
> the actual transfer, while the 'New Files' count includes any attrib
> files that BackupPC creates, which is a bit confusing. It would seem
> more logical to either exclude BackupPC's internal files like attrib
> from the counts entirely, or to at least make it consistent and add it
> to the Totals count as well.
>
> Still no clue about where it got the existing file count from... there
> are no 'pool' operations in the transfer log at all.
>

I think the attrib files are pooled too.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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