Matthias Meyer wrote at about 08:12:45 +0200 on Monday, April 5, 2010:
> Luis Paulo wrote:
>
> > I was trying to get a way to find what files have changed in an
> > incremental backup.
> > Does any one has a solution for it already?
> >
> > I've look at /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<host>/backups and to the XferLOG, but
> > i'm getting nowhere.
> > I did a manual incremental a few minutes after another, and I get:
> >
> >> echo -e " n type\tFiles\tExist\tNew\tlevel"; \
> > awk '{print $1," ",$2,"\t",$5,"\t",$7,"\t",$9,"\t",$21}'
> > /var/lib/backuppc/pc/portatil/backups
> > n type Files Exist New level
> > 35 incr 36 27 43 4
> >
> > Those are the numbers that appears on the GUI. How they relate (or if)
> > with each other I don't know. (btw, It's a level 4 incremental following a
> > level 3)
> >
> > But if I count the "create" files on XferLOG.35.z I get *19491* files (15
> > pool, 11 same, 0 skip, 0 delete).
> >> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat
> > /var/lib/backuppc/pc/portatil/XferLOG.35.z |grep -c "^ create"
> >
> > Don't know where to go from here.
> > Really appreciate any help.
> >
> > EDIT: I look better to the log and its almost all directories
> >
> > If I exclude directories, I have 10 create (9 regular, 1 p), 15 pool (10
> > reg, 3 c, 2 l), 11 same. Create files are logs and pid, as expected.
> >
> >> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat
> > /var/lib/backuppc/pc/portatil/XferLOG.31.z |grep "^ create" |grep -v "^
> > create d"
> >
> > Did some tests with other log files and it looks reasonable. Although it
> > don't show what directories were created, its a start. How it relates with
> > backups file values beats me.
> >
> > Any one as a better solution, please? Thanks.
>
> The count not only including directories but also the files "attrib". One in
> each directory.
> I believe your counting (19491 Total files, 10 regular files) can't be
> correct. Regular files must be an odd number because count of directories
> and attrib files must be an even number.
>
> You can do a "ls -R /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<yourhost>/<backupnumber>"
>
I believe that empty directories do not have an attrib file in
them. Perhaps this explains the parity results...
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