James,

On Fri 20 June 2008 21:49, James Austin wrote:
> I have been noticing that my nightly incremental backups have been quite
> large (>300 meg) when not much data is being changed. I am assuming that
> this is due to the size of the log files in /var/log.
>
> I was wondering:
>
> 1. Using bconsole, how do you get a list of files and their sizes stored in
> an incremental backup, I can find the list of files using the query command
> but I cannot find any way for displaying the size of the files.
>
> This is very important as I need to be able to see what is being backed up,
> and at what cost (transfer/storage).

List Files JobID=xxxx works for me (Version: 1.38.11 (28 June 2006)).

> 2. Are there any recommendations for handling the /var/log folder,
> something along the lines of truncating the files so that only the last
> 500k, or only the last 100000 lines are copied?
>
> 3. Would any of you recommend excluding the /var/log folder?
>
> James.

cmr

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