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dsnpevl
Jan 02, 2015Virtuoso
rootfs increases by 5 to 10% during USB backup
Is it common behaviour that the rootfs size increases by 5 to 10% during a > 4 TB size backup to an external USB 3 drive? After the backup is finished, the size returns to the previous state, luckely....
dsnpevl
Jan 04, 2015Virtuoso
StephenB wrote: In that situation it'd be simpler and less risky to make your backups manually (or use tools on other systems, like robocopy on a PC). Then cleanup the root partition.
Yes, that's probably a better alternative. Have not worked with robocopy before. Should look into that. But I'm having issues with the speed of copying over the network, so probably need to fix that first.
StephenB wrote: Most add-ons are already storing their data in /data/.apps
Good! They should all do that :)
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