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When not running the current version of timedog as root (so, even when running 
as an admin 
user), it silently ignores (or simply doesn't know about) files it cannot 
access. This also yields a 
lower total size of changed files. I don't think this is a common problem 
(though maybe plain 
users, without admin rights, need sudo all the time), so maybe this could 
simply be 
documented.

For example, running as an admin user:

~/Downloads/timedog -d 1
==> Comparing TM backup 2009-07-09-213048 to 2009-07-01-140540
    Depth: 1 directories  
    3.2KB->    3.2KB        /.Backup.log
       0B->       0B        /.com.apple.TMCheckpoint
     788B->     788B        /.exclusions.plist
   35.7MB->   60.3MB [1416] /Macintosh HD/
==> Total Backup: 1421 changed files/directories, 60.34MB

sudo ~/Downloads/timedog -d 1
Password:
==> Comparing TM backup 2009-07-09-213048 to 2009-07-01-140540
    Depth: 1 directories  
    3.2KB->    3.2KB        /.Backup.log
       0B->       0B        /.com.apple.TMCheckpoint
     788B->     788B        /.exclusions.plist
   14.3GB->   14.4GB [1423] /Macintosh HD/
==> Total Backup: 1428 changed files/directories, 14.36GB

My backup disk is attached to a remote Mac mini, so it's a sparsebundle.

The same issue occurs in TimeTracker. I found it because the logs stated many 
GBs were used, 
and disk space did indeed decrease by many GBs. However, timedog and 
TimeTracker only 
reported a much lower value. Using "find . -mtime -10" in the latest backup I 
got a warning:

    find: ./Macintosh HD/usr/local/mysql-5.0.51a-osx10.5-x86/data: Permission denied

And that folder indeed showed a 11 GB log file, and a 3.5 GB database. This 
folder is owned by 
user _mysql, group wheel.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by avben...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2009 at 10:53

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Good point, and worth mentioning.

Original comment by jdtsm...@gmail.com on 30 Nov 2009 at 12:49

• Changed state: Done

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Original comment by jdtsm...@gmail.com on 30 Nov 2009 at 12:54