Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal After upgrading to Squeeze, backup2l created a level-2 backup that contains /all/ files to backup, instead of just the few files that actually changed. So something in the new version of backup2l (or bash, or find or ls?) messes with the algorithm that backup2l employs to check for whether files have changed (date/time/size?). After the one oversized backup, following differential backups have a usually small size, so the problem is only visible when backup2l creates a differential backup against a backup that was created with lenny. So actually I'm seeing the problem twice: once for the level-2 backup that diffed against the previous level-2 backup created with lenny. Then a week later when Squeeze creates a new level-1 backup against the earlier level-1 backup also created by lenny. Quite a lot of wasted disk space + bandwidth. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- GnuPG public key: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40
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