Micke Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Hi, we are running two identical sets for backup, one for odd weeks the other one for even. The used set is recycled fridays, incremental backups are performed during rest of the week. The size of the source is appx 600 GB. The size of the backup files (recycled) from last friday is 1,06 TB! That is to compare with the size of the backup files from the friday before which is 602 GB. The amount of objects is 1 699 compared to 961. Any idea why? Kind regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 You can browse past backups to see what was actually backed up and when. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micke Posted February 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 561,2 GB has been backed up. If I choose to "Show info" on the backup folder it says 1 699 objects, 1,06 TB. When I open the folder there are only 846 objects (.rdb files) of which 844 has the same size – 629,2 MB. 844 x 629,2 = 531 GB. Can there be any hidden files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 OK, so that is what you meant by "objects". Yes, there can be hidden files. No, Retrospect does not hide files. You should repair the hard drive using Apple's Disk Utility and see if it helps. For the possible next step, Are you confident in running some basic Terminal commands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micke Posted February 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Guess what. Retrospect performed an incremental backup a little while ago. "Show info" now declares that the backup folder contains 850 files weighing 532,4 GB! I find it hard to believe that this phenomenon hasn't got anything to do with Retrospect. What's your opinion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 I'm even more convinced that you should repair the hard drive using Apple's Disk Utility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micke Posted February 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Even though it's a NAS without any OS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 I assumed it was a local drive. My bad. Did you get some kind of software with the NAS, that enables you to check the consistency of the drive's contents? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micke Posted February 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2016 You can check the status and health of the disks and hardware but not of the content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted February 23, 2016 Report Share Posted February 23, 2016 You can check the status and health of the disks and hardware... What happens if you do just that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micke Posted February 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2016 Everything is just fine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted February 23, 2016 Report Share Posted February 23, 2016 OK, care for some Terminal commands then? Launch Terminal (in the Utilities folder). type "cd " (less quotes, including trailing space) Drag the "Retrospect folder" from a Finder window into the Terminal window. The path to the folder will be added to the command. Press the return key. Your "active" folder is now the Retrospect folder. Now list all contents: "ls -al" (less quotes) and press the return key. Do you see anything that should not belong there? For instance, names starting with a period "." (or "full stop" if you are British) are invisible in the Finder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micke Posted February 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2016 To make it easy for me : total 32drwxrwxrwx@ 1 Janne staff 264 14 Okt 2013 .drwxrwxrwx@ 1 Janne staff 398 18 Feb 22:12 ..-rw-rw-rw-@ 1 Janne staff 15364 22 Feb 18:22 .DS_Storedrwxrwxrwx@ 1 Janne staff 28890 22 Feb 16:38 1-Produktion B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micke Posted February 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2016 But on the other hand, as I wrote yesterday, the size of the folder is normal now . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted February 23, 2016 Report Share Posted February 23, 2016 To make it easy for me : total 32 drwxrwxrwx@ 1 Janne staff 264 14 Okt 2013 . drwxrwxrwx@ 1 Janne staff 398 18 Feb 22:12 .. -rw-rw-rw-@ 1 Janne staff 15364 22 Feb 18:22 .DS_Store drwxrwxrwx@ 1 Janne staff 28890 22 Feb 16:38 1-Produktion B That is the parent folder to the folder that contains the .rdb files. But on the other hand, as I wrote yesterday, the size of the folder is normal now . Right, so there is nothing we can do now to trace the problem. I still think it was a NAS glitch, rather than a Retrospect glitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micke Posted February 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2016 OK, thanks for being so helpful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted February 23, 2016 Report Share Posted February 23, 2016 You are welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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