2009/10/2 Paul Slootman <[email protected]>: > On Fri 02 Oct 2009, Eric Smith wrote: >> >> While I definitely agree that looking at the logfiles is helpful, >> remember that an image (call it C) might have contained few delta files >> when it was created, because the files were in a previous image B, but >> not in an even earlier image A. If B is deleted before A, then C will >> now hold the only reference to those files it had in common with B, >> giving C a larger image size (as reported by du) than when it was >> created (as reported in the logfile). > > So, be sure to check for unexpectedly large incrementals every day :-) >
Good point well made :-) After this, I think I'll write a small script to run after the dirvish cronjob every day, that backups up that images log file to a separate directory and alerts me if there is an unexpectedly high data transfer. Jenny _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
