Re: [Duplicity-talk] backups larger than source

[edgar . soldin]

On 02.09.2015 08:16, Matt Chipman wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> backing up a "Backuppc" store to a qnap device and the backups are huge.
> 
> As a test, started with a 2.6GB Backuppc directory and after 1 hour, the
> backup is still running and the backup size is now ~20GB.
> 
> System is Debian 8
> 
> tried Version 6.24 and 6.26 with the same result.  Tried with encryption
> and without, same result.
> 
> About to try Duplicity 7 and see how that goes but it seems I am missing
> something.
> 
> current command line
> /usr/local/bin/duplicity --no-encryption /var/lib/backuppc/pc/wiki scp://
> address@hidden///share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/AUdcbkp01
> 
> I am wondering if Duplicity is seeing all the links in the backuppc
> directory and going round in circles?

duplicity should not follow symlinks but treat them as files.

> any hints much appreciated.
> 

you can run your backup in max verbose mode '-v9' and observe which files get 
backed up.

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