Re: Estimating backup usage with dir-merge filter

2011-10-07 Thread Paul Dugas
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Henri Shustak henri.shus...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds like you missed the point of Kevin's message (in the other fork of this thread).  The point wasn't to use `du`, it was that you can run your stats against the backed-up files, not the source.  Then you're

Re: Estimating backup usage with dir-merge filter

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Dugas
I appreciate the suggestions so far but I know how to measure usage with 'du' et al. The hitch here is that I want to exclude files the --filter='dir-merge .rsync-filter' excludes. Hense the thought to use rsync itself. On Oct 6, 2011 11:02 AM, K S Braunsdorf k...@sac.fedex.com wrote: that

Re: Estimating backup usage with dir-merge filter

2011-10-06 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Paul Dugas wrote: I appreciate the suggestions so far but I know how to measure usage with 'du' et al. The hitch here is that I want to exclude files the --filter='dir-merge .rsync-filter' excludes. Hense the thought to use rsync itself. It sounds like you missed the

Re: Estimating backup usage with dir-merge filter

2011-10-06 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell rs...@benizi.comwrote: use your rsync command with '--list-only', and post-process that list. Even easier, just make a note of the verbose output from the copy (get better stats via --stats with or w/o --verbose). Or, if you need a special

Re: Estimating backup usage with dir-merge filter

2011-10-06 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Wayne Davison wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: use your rsync command with '--list-only', and post-process that list. Even easier, just make a note of the verbose output from the copy (get better stats via --stats with or w/o --verbose).

Re: Estimating backup usage with dir-merge filter

2011-10-06 Thread Paul Dugas
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell rs...@benizi.com wrote: It sounds like you missed the point of Kevin's message (in the other fork of this thread).  The point wasn't to use `du`, it was that you can run your stats against the backed-up files, not the source.  Then you're

Re: Estimating backup usage with dir-merge filter

2011-10-06 Thread Henri Shustak
It sounds like you missed the point of Kevin's message (in the other fork of this thread). The point wasn't to use `du`, it was that you can run your stats against the backed-up files, not the source. Then you're only running stats against the results of running the backup using the

Estimating backup usage with dir-merge filter

2011-10-05 Thread Paul Dugas
I use --filter='dir-merge .backup-filter to allow my users to designate portions of their home directories that should be excluded from my rsync-based backup system. I'm looking for a way to periodically generate a report that shows the amount of backup space being used by each user. I've

Re: Estimating backup usage with dir-merge filter

2011-10-05 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why not do the du on the backup where the excluded files aren't there? On 10/05/11 12:57, Paul Dugas wrote: I use --filter='dir-merge .backup-filter to allow my users to designate portions of their home directories that should be excluded from my