Re: [BackupPC-users] calculating changes to filesystem over time

2015-02-11 Thread Andreas Piening
Hi Rob, may I suggest to create a large snapshot (it depends on your scenario what ‚large‘ is, for my setup 10 GB is more than enough) and just watch it for a while? > watch lvs You can run this in a screen session and get back to it every hour or so and you’ll see how fast your snapshot gets

[BackupPC-users] calculating changes to filesystem over time

2015-02-11 Thread Rob Owens
I am trying to set up LVM snapshots and I need to figure out how large of a space to allocate for the snapshot. Is there a tool I can use to monitor the changes to my filesystem over some period of time? In other words, I want to know how much changed data there is over a day, a week, etc. Th