rsync mystery

[Mike Bird]

On Mon May 19 2008 15:55:16 Karl Larsen wrote:
>     I have backed up this system to my second hard drive but there is a
> strange problem. Yesterday I found a problem and now this computer is
> running in just 2894892000 bytes. I just backed it up and the size of
> the backup is at least 3549580000 bytes.
>
>     Does anyone know why a backup is larger than the original??

Did the backup use both -H and -S?

IIRC your root partition was about 2.8GB.  Did it backup
other partitions (e.g. /home or /var/run) in addition to
your root partition?

--Mike Bird