On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta
<gandalf.corvotempesta AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> 2016-01-21 16:30 GMT+01:00 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>:
>> V4 does it backwards from v3.   The last backup is always filled and
>> the older ones are changed to reverse deltas.  It must move/copy
>> things around to arrange that.   And the full and incremental runs
>> aren't tied to keeping filled/unfilled backups anymore.  But, I still
>> don't see why any expired already.
>
> Another this to know is why BPC is fsck every backups every time.
> After each backup, it will run fsck. It should run just for the last
> executed backup, as previously ones was alreday checked.
>
> But is running fsck every time for each backup that I have, taking
> many many hours. Like now:
> srv1 is fsck #1, then #2, then #4. after all, it will run a new backup
> and start again the fsck
>

I see some earlier mail list messages saying that is normal:
http://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/34478542/
I guess that's when it removes files that are not in any current
backup.  Apparently it only takes a long time when you have a very
large number of files.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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