[cs615asa] ec2_backup

[Jan Schaumann]

Paul-Anthony Dudzinski <pdudzins at stevens.edu> wrote:
 
> Do you ignore these files?

You have to -- if you can't read the directory to figure out the size of
its contents, then you can't back them up, so whatever is reported in
the end is the size of what you can back up.

> Any thoughts as to how to accurately calculate the size? du seems to be
> more accurate but takes forever and puts out a lot of garbage

You can suppress the output.

>, not to
> mention it is not clear from the man page whether it adds the size of
> restricted files to the total (I am guessing no).

It can't.

-Jan