On Sunday 06 November 2005 15:38, Les Mikesell wrote: > It does make a good test case for whether your backup method > handles sparse files gracefully, though. And how long it takes > to read through even if it does. Which is exactly how I identified the problem. Our disk2disk backups (via rsync) got plowed when we installed a new CentOS 4.1 system and we ended up with a lastlog many times the size of the total disk space in the backup cluster. Argh... -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978