[Box Backup] Backup with far more space used than source
Ben Summers
boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Sat, 3 Sep 2005 08:36:13 +0100
On 2 Sep 2005, at 20:13, Kristopher Zentner wrote:
> Quoting Martin Ebourne <lists@ebourne.me.uk>:
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>> You haven't renamed the backup location or similar have you? Maybe
>> that
>> would cause stuff to be uploaded twice?
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>
> I was looking through the conf again and I think this is the case.
> I had a
> directory in there that also belongs to a parent directory of
> another Location.
> I'm going to try this again and I'm suspecting this problem may
> just be one big
> pebkac, ouch. Thanks again for all the help guys.
This is why I was suggesting you logged in with bbackupquery and
looked at exactly what was being stored on the server.
At least we know the problem now!
Ben