author | Alberto Bertogli
<albertogli@telpin.com.ar> 2006-03-07 16:17:35 UTC |
committer | Alberto Bertogli
<albertogli@telpin.com.ar> 2006-03-07 16:17:35 UTC |
parent | 5e2462bf48848d5a00c62a8a887043d3d34cc9d4 |
README | +13 | -0 |
cinfo | +22 | -0 |
diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f20f9d --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ + +abk - A backup script +Alberto Bertogli (albertogli@telpin.com.ar) +------------------------------------------- + +This is a backup script. It's completely desperate for documentation. + +Comments and patches are always welcome; please send them to my email address, +albertogli@telpin.com.ar. + +Thanks, + Alberto + diff --git a/cinfo b/cinfo new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a5c6770 --- /dev/null +++ b/cinfo @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ + +Using bzip2 compression (and default sha1 checksum): + +use original abk +mailboxes 387Mb 137Mb +home 505Mb 330Mb +total 892Mb 467Mb +compression ratio: 0.523 + +mailboxes: My mailboxes folder, several files in mbox format with varying +sizes (total about 350Mb), and the rest are older mailboxes already compressed +with bzip2. + +home: My home directory, which comprises mostly of tons of small files; the +most important directory is my development one, with 229Mb and tons of source +code files, most of them small (way under 15k); and my pictures also take up +some space, 128Mb, mostly .jpg files (and thus not so compressable); the rest +is mostly configuration files and a little bit of documentation. + +It took about 10 minutes to do a full backup, from scratch, on my P4 2.8Ghz, +HT enabled, 512Mb ram. +