14.01.10

ftplicity/duply/duplicity: Get list of files in backup sorted by size

To get a list of files in your current backup, sorted by (current) file size, you can use the following snippet, which will create a file backup-size.list with the result.

Code:

for i in $(ftplicity moby list | tail -n +10 | head -n -1 | cut -b26-); do
  FILE="/$i";
  test -f $FILE && du $FILE;
done | sort -n -r > backup-size.list

I've used this to find the biggest files in the current backup which are not required to get backed up and excluded them via the exclude list feature of ftplicity/duply/duplicity (ftplicity or duply are frontends for duplicity).

By Daniel in Snippets, System administration – 2010-01-14 English (EU) Email

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