Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup --list-increment-sizes reversed?

[dean gaudet]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Seather wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> When I run an rdiff-backup --list-increment-sizes, the output seems to be
> reversed. Am I perhaps missing something or confused about how this works? In
> my output that I have pasted below, the "Cumulative size" field decreases as
> the date increases. This doesn't make any sense to me. Now if it was the other
> way around, I could understand that?
> 
> Here's my output:
> 
> server ~ # rdiff-backup --list-increment-sizes rdiffbackups
>        Time                       Size        Cumulative size
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sun Oct  8 06:45:32 2006         1.56 GB           1.56 GB   (current mirror)
> Sat Oct  7 06:45:31 2006         9.12 MB           1.57 GB
> Fri Oct  6 06:45:30 2006         2.47 MB           1.57 GB
> Thu Oct  5 06:45:31 2006         17.1 MB           1.59 GB
> Wed Oct  4 06:45:30 2006         13.7 MB           1.60 GB

isn't the cumulative size equal to the sum of the size columns on this row 
and earlier?

i.e. 1.60GB = 1.56GB + 9.12MB + 2.47MB + 17.1MB + 13.7MB...

-dean