Re: [Duplicity-talk] duply restore Bug [ # diff -q -r /tmp/restore/sbin /usr/sbin ] Comes wrong! {Amended 2}

[edgar . soldin]

On 09.03.2012 13:43, han duply wrote:
>> 1.  Are these "missing files" Really Backuped in the FTP Server ??
>>
>>      Because the CMD "du -sh /usr/sbin /usr/sbin2" gives me:
>>        /usr/sbin      34M
>>        /usr/sbin2    32M      <== So Where is the other files of 2M ?
>>
> 
>     can it be that subfolders of /usr/sbin are still excluded?
>     you could ls -la each folder and diff the resulting outputs 
> 
>     
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> -*No there is not, *see the content of "exclude" under my /etc/duply/tst2 
> folder.
> 
>       1 + /usr/bin
>       2 + /usr/sbin
>       3 - **

what did a line by line comparision result in?

> And finally I understand that all the "missing" file (e.g. "accton" ) is *a 
> special file (symbolic link file, like a shortcut)* ,not the*"Source file" 
> (which have the content of the file)*
> 

yes, but a 'du' command should not follow symlinks unless you switch it on. 
Meaning symlinks have a size of zero when fed to du.

e.g.
host:~> ls -la /bin/vim
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 10. Jan 2011  /bin/vim -> /etc/alternatives/vim
host:~> du /bin/vim
0       /bin/vim

Hence the symlinks wouldn't make up for the difference in size.

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