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

Les Mikesell wrote at about 08:02:35 -0500 on Wednesday, August 28, 2013:
 > 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.

They are indeed. In fact, every non-zero length file below the
<host>/<backup #> level is pooled with the single exception of the
backupInfo file.

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