Warn when backup size changes drastically

pwaring / backup-scripts

Wrapper scripts for various backup systems

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Open pwaring opened 6 months ago

pwaring commented 6 months ago

Warn the user if the size of the current backup is drastically different to the previous one.

Need to think about:

How to define 'drastically' - user-configurable? Or is +/- 20% sufficient?
How to warn the user - stop the script or continue but print error messages at the end?
How to calculate backup size - probably differs per program?
Check for each backup software, given that they all backup the same data?

pwaring commented 2 months ago

A simple option might be to calculate the disk usage of all the folders to be backed up, minus the excluded folders, and save that as a text file.