>>>>> Hunter Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 13 May 2005 10:52:16 -0400
> > But I think for the vast majority of situations the threat of a > > majority of disk space being consumed by meta snapshots seems remote. > > The metadata is compressed and takes up only a few bytes per file, so > > if the mirror_metadata file is 20MB the source data is probably 20GB+. > > 185MB. > Which is why I was concerned - I have a 80GB machine to backup. > > Which probably means I just need to try it and see how it goes. Well on my machine the mirror metadata takes about 10 bytes per file. So I would expect 20MB of metadata for a 185MB volume only if you had a lot of very small files. -- Ben Escoto
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