On 24 Apr 2006 at 16:21, Scott Ruckh wrote:

> Output from df -h looks like the following:
> 
> df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6             129G   23G  100G  19% /
> /dev/sda1              99M   27M   68M  29% /boot
> none                 1006M     0 1006M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda3              49G  109M   46G   1% /home
> /dev/sda2              97G  2.5G   89G   3% /var
> /dev/sdb1             459G  131G  305G  31% /BACKUPS
> 
> FileSet looks like the following
> # List of files to be backed up
> FileSet {
>   Name = "aname"
>   Include {
>     Options {
>       signature = MD5
>     }
>     File = /
>     File = /boot
>     File = /var
>     File = /home
>   }
> 
>   Exclude {
>     File = /proc
>     File = /tmp
>     File = /sys
>     File = dev
>     File = /.journal
>     File = /.fsck
>     File = /mnt
>     File = /var/spool/squid
>     File = /BACKUPS
>   }
> }
> 
> The backup is to disk for this single system and the backup is well over
> 143GB in space.  The actual data being backed up is less then 30GB.  Why
> is this backup so big?

Run the estimate command.  Something is taking up the space.  Are you 
backing up to disk and also backing up the Bacula Volumes?  i.e 
backing up your backups.

-- 
Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work
my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php




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