Stefan Knoll wrote: > The strange thing is, the initial sync runs approx. 10 mins for each of > the two jobs. Each subsequent job runs 10 secs. max, which is o.k. > because there are not many files which get changed. However each backup > occupies exactly the same amount of disk space as the initial one. I > have now 4 backups plus the initial one and they are occupying approx. > 18,5GB > My understanding was, that diskspace will only get allocated if a file > actually gets changed, so why does the occupied space grows and grows???
How are you measuring all this? Especially given the difference in run time, there is a possibility that you are simply measuring the wrong thing, but dirvish itself is doing exactly what it should be. If you use something like du to measure how much disk space is used, it will report that every backup takes up 18.5 GB, +- a bit as things change on the client machine, if you measure each backup individually. This does not, however, mean that two backups together are actually taking up 37 GB on the hard disk. If this is what is happening, I've found that the following experiment helps me think about it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cd /tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ mkdir fakebackups [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ cd fakebackups [EMAIL PROTECTED] fakebackups]$ mkdir a [EMAIL PROTECTED] fakebackups]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=a/backup count=10000 10000+0 records in 10000+0 records out 5120000 bytes (5.1 MB) copied, 0.0705026 seconds, 72.6 MB/s [EMAIL PROTECTED] fakebackups]$ mkdir b [EMAIL PROTECTED] fakebackups]$ ln a/backup b/backup [EMAIL PROTECTED] fakebackups]$ du -sh a 5.0M a [EMAIL PROTECTED] fakebackups]$ du -sh b 5.0M b [EMAIL PROTECTED] fakebackups]$ du -sh . 5.0M . Or, I created one 5M file but have two directories, a and b, which are both 5M big, but the contents of the directory they're in, is also only 5M in size. You can find a more detailed discussion of this whole matter, and how hard links work in practice, in the archives for this list. --Jon Radel
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