Backup image size, twice the size after a couple of months?

[nezzeo]

Image: Open Pli

I install a clean image, install my chosen plugins and do an image backup. I end up with the usual 3 files, the main one being root_cfe_auto.jffs2 weighing in at 42MB.

A couple of months later I want to tweak some bits so I firstly take a clean backup, but this time the root_cfe_auto.jffs2 file has gone up to 110MB in size??

Any idea why the bloatedness? Is there a recyle bin style directory I need to clean out regularly?

I regularly do the software updates through software management menu. I've not done anything silly like copy any files onto the box anywhere. The backup is done after a fresh reboot.

Anyone else experience this and know how to sort it out? :confused:

[Maxwell]

New Channel updates, epg data, crashlogs, picons maybe

[Sicilian]

how many plugins have you installed?

[nezzeo]

No new picons
Plugins - none since the last backup
Crashlogs - maybe, where can i find these? I can see enigma2_crash_xxxxxxxx.log in /media/hdd but this is the Hard drive of course - are there any others stored anywhere?
EPG Data - maybe, but unless its keeping all the data since the original backup then surely 50MB is excessive for (just sky 28.2E) EPG. I'm happy to have a look - where abouts is it stored? I can see /media/hdd/epg.dat but this is on the Hard drive also
New Channel updates - do you just mean /etc/enigma2/ ? There's nothing excessive in there

[nezzeo]

any other ideas guys?

[MalteseMick]

FTP into your main folder in Windows Explorer ftp://bm750

Once in there you can right click on folders and get details of the size each folder is, I'd have a look at the 'etc' and 'tmp' folders to make sure they arn't abnormally large. If you have an FTP client such as filezilla installed you could download all the files and do a search for certain file extensions such as *.dat and *.img to see if you are doing something silly, like making a back up of an img which has a backup of an img already in it!

[nezzeo]

Hmm... not quite as simple as I'd have hoped, what with all the symlinks etc. Concerned about the /proc folder:
root@vuduo /proc # ls -l
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:34 1/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 10/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 11/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 12/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 13/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 136/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 137/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 138/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 14/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 15/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 154/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 155/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 16/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 17/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 18/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 185/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 186/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 19/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 196/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 2/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 20/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 206/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 21/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 22/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 264/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 266/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 3/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 daemon daemon 0 Dec 14 21:44 300/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 17:25 305/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 331/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 342/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 messageb messageb 0 Dec 14 21:44 353/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 359/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 383/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 384/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 385/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 386/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 387/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 388/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 389/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 390/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 391/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 393/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 394/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 395/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 398/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 4/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 403/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 405/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 avahi avahi 0 Dec 14 21:44 423/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 avahi avahi 0 Dec 14 21:44 424/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 426/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 428/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 431/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 435/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 436/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 446/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 5/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 6/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 684/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 685/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 nobody nogroup 0 Dec 14 21:45 689/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 691/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 692/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 7/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 8/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:38 9/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 92/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 93/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 94/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:44 95/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 asound/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 buddyinfo
dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Dec 14 17:25 bus/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 cdfs
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 cmdline
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 cpuinfo
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 crypto
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 devices
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 diskstats
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 driver/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 execdomains
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 fb
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 filesystems
dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 fs/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 interrupts
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 iomem
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 ioports
dr-xr-xr-x 102 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 irq/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 kallsyms
-r-------- 1 root root 268439552 Dec 14 21:45 kcore
-r-------- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 kmsg
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 loadavg
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 locks
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 meminfo
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 misc
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 modules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Dec 14 21:45 mounts -> self/mounts
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 mtd
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 net/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 partitions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 progress
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 scsi/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 64 Dec 14 21:44 self -> 692/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 slabinfo
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 softirqs
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 stat
dr-xr-xr-x 14 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 stb/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 swaps
dr-xr-xr-x 9 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 sys/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 sysvipc/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 tty/
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 uptime
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 version
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 vmstat
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 21:45 zoneinfo
root@vuduo /proc #

is that about normal file listing? Each numbered folder has the same contents

[MalteseMick]

I'm not sure tbh I'm offshore working for a week so can't check my box to find out.

What size in the folder containing all these files? is it big enough to make the file size jump in two?

[nezzeo]

Its hard to get a true size because of the recursive symlinks, but there's nothing over 1Mb apart from 2 .so files
Just wondered what with so many it looked almost incremental so was that causing some issues.

Still downloading the rest of the image see if I can find much else

[nezzeo]

Biggest one file is a \lib\modules\2.6.18-7.3\extra\dvb-bcm7335.so 6MB file, then 2 or 3 1MB to 3Mb files and the rest are just in the hundreds of k all the way down to 0k
So nothing stupid that I can see. Admitedly the /usr folder is 90MB, so maybe this is the culprit but this condenses down to 20mb when winRAR'd.

Think the only way I'm getting get out of this is reflash, do my plugins/updates and then retest.

Anyone else able to do a backup image and give me an indication of how big they're backup file is?