[Box Backup] dry run ?

[Andrew Guenther]

Try a "compare -l etc -q". Change etc to your data path name. See help  
compare within bbackupquery.

Andrew Guenther
ACE Technology Group
610 640 4223 x2

On Sep 20, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Wim Kerkhoff <wim@nyetwork.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using boxbackup to do an offsite backup of about 300 GB of data.  
> When I first set it up, I used a removable hard drive to pre-seed  
> the offsite boxbackup server to avoid bandwidth costs and waiting  
> for 2 weeks for it to sync.
>
> Howerver, I'm finding that it's still running 24x7, pumping out  
> files to the server. I have bbackupd in debug mode, so in /var/log/ 
> syslog I can see what files it's uploading.
>
> But, is there a way to determine how many files and bytes need to be  
> uploaded on the next backup run? Something like rsync's -n option?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wim
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