big backup file
Johnneylee Rollins
johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 00:03:11 UTC 2010
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yesterday I backed up with rsync -avz my 9.4 Ubuntu which I
> expected to be about 25 GB; lots of pictures ect. I looked at
> the backup hard drive and Gparted says the backup is 147GB!
> Almost the entire hard drive.
>
> I have been trying to trouble shoot and it appears the
> partition table might be bad. Can this cause what I'm seeing?
>
> 73 Karl
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If you backed up what you wanted and it was large you use compression
tar compression. How very ironic.
~SpaceGhost
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