Re: [Duplicity-talk] a script to find sizes of files in an incremental backup

[T. Prost]

Am Freitag, den 09.03.2012, 11:46 +0900 schrieb Dan Drake:
> Hello,
> 
> I run daily backups with duplicity and cron mails me the results.
> Sometimes the incremental backup seems unusually large, and I wonder
> what made it so big.
> 
> For example, a while ago, Firefox decided to create a "Cache.Trash"
> directory, and my exclude filelist let it through -- so now I have 600+
> megabytes of useless crap in my backups. It took some digging to find
> out what duplicity had done.
> 
> I wanted an easy way to find out the sizes of the files that got stored
> in an incremental backup, so I wrote a script that goes through a
> difftar or sigtar file and prints out the sizes. You can find it at
> https://gist.github.com/2001367.
> 
> I hope someone finds it useful!
It would be extremely useful when walking through a collection of
difftar-files. I suppose it can do that as well ???