Backup Size

[Jay Hall]

>
> Difficult. 512 bytes per entry + 1024 (EOF). See man 5 tar. But  
> since files
> will be padded there is some extra overhead. Also, it is hard to  
> calculate
> hard links and sparse files. Tar will handle these correctly (i.e.  
> preserve
> hard links and detect sparse files and try not archive "blocks of  
> nulls") but
> it is hard to calculate the size because of this before the archive  
> operation
> because of this.
> -- 
> Mel

Thanks.  I have been able to come close, but not exact.

Looks like close will have to be good enough.

Thanks again.


Jay