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Readynas 3200 disk space issue
Hi there, I have 2 of these units with both 12X 2tB disks in them. One unit it the primary unit that is where all my other site servers backup to. That then mirrors the data onto the 2nd offsite un...
Paladax wrote: If I am in a backup folder for a server and do a du * -sh it shows the following
Mon = 436GB
Tue = 73GB
Wed = 71GB
Thur = 80GB
Fri = 436GB
However, if I then go into the Wednesday folder and do the same du command it then shows me a total size of 436GB.
That's correct if your backups are created using hardlinks (e.g. using the rsync "--link-dest" option); du counts each file it sees only once, regardless of how many hardlinks to that file it also sees.
To make du count every hardlink, try this from your outer directory:
du -shl *
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