reassign 605474 backup2l 1.5-3 kthxbye Reassigning to backup2l, hopefully its maintainer can help you investigate the issue. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 14:36:00 +0100, David Kuehling wrote: > 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 > Cheers, Julien
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