big backup file

[Karl F. Larsen]

Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
> 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
> 

	Why would it be BIGGER than 25GB?


73 Karl


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