Hourly backups taking too much space

[dcabbar]

Hi all,

My hourly backups are taking ~ 600-700 MB space and there is no way I could have changed that much file. Is there anyway of seeing what has changed or what is being backed up so that I can figure out what to exclude and what not to exclude?

Thanks

[sphardy]

I use an open source tool called "Grand Perspective" - See here: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ ... ckups.html

[dcabbar]

This is an awesome tool! It was very useful, and I figured out what was taking that much space and resolved the issue. Thanks for the info...

Just one additional question: You need to open every backup one-by-one to see how much space it is taking. Is there a way of figuring out how much space each backup takes in an aggregated way? Something like "du -sm" for backups is what I am looking for.

Once again, thanks a ton.

[sphardy]

Not that I know of - it may be possible, but I've never felt the need to look so closely.