Re: [BackupPC-users] Dealing with large directories.

2017-08-14 Thread Ray Frush
Craig- On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Ray, > > The behavior you are seeing is expected for tar (and smb and ftp) > XferMethods. Incrementals don't detect deleted or renamed files. So if > you have a directory

Re: [BackupPC-users] Dealing with large directories.

2017-08-14 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
Ray, The behavior you are seeing is expected for tar (and smb and ftp) XferMethods. Incrementals don't detect deleted or renamed files. So if you have a directory with lots of changes, incrementals will backup the new files (and any prior files with recent mtimes), and the "view" of the backup w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Dealing with large directories.

2017-08-14 Thread Ray Frush
Craig- Thanks for taking a look at this. On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users < backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Ray, > > What is the XferMethod and backup schedule (ie, how often do you do > incrementals and fulls)? Which backup are you viewing (ie,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Dealing with large directories.

2017-08-13 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
Ray, What is the XferMethod and backup schedule (ie, how often do you do incrementals and fulls)? Which backup are you viewing (ie, how many incrementals need to be merged to view it)? Are you running v3 or v4? Two options are to: - use BackupPC_ls so you can see the backup tree using the c

[BackupPC-users] Dealing with large directories.

2017-08-03 Thread Ray Frush
This is a two part question/problem report. We backup a file system that has a sub-directory that generally contains around 39K small files that usually adds up to 16GB. The files see a fair amount of churn month to month, and we were pulling from a backup about 2 weeks ago. When we try to brow