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[Howard Cheng <722111@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oops.  I retract my most recent report.  Despite the log file claiming
that it was doing incremental backup and that the archive will only have
90 files, the files.tar.bz2 file that is being created seems to contain
everything at the end.  And the max free space required was way off:

2011-04-04 03:30:48,245 - INFO: Last full backup is 1 days old < 40 -> make inc backup
2011-04-04 03:30:48,262 - INFO: Snapshot '2011-04-04_03.30.48.245392.home-desktop.inc' is being made.
2011-04-04 03:30:48,262 - INFO: Setting Base to '2011-04-03_10.18.27.669121.home-desktop.ful'.
2011-04-04 03:30:48,262 - INFO: Setting packages File.
2011-04-04 03:30:48,475 - INFO: Setting Excludes File.
2011-04-04 03:30:48,476 - INFO: Setting compression format to `bzip2`
2011-04-04 03:30:48,476 - INFO: Option 'Follow symbolic links' is disabled.
2011-04-04 03:30:48,476 - INFO: Inspect file system and collect file infos
...
2011-04-04 03:33:27,528 - INFO: Summary of backup
2011-04-04 03:33:27,528 - INFO: Number of directories: 5095.
2011-04-04 03:33:27,529 - INFO: Total number of files: 52675.
2011-04-04 03:33:27,529 - INFO: Number of symlinks: 1038.
2011-04-04 03:33:27,529 - INFO: Number of files included in snapshot: 90.
2011-04-04 03:33:27,530 - INFO: Number of new files (also included): 5.
2011-04-04 03:33:27,530 - INFO: Number of files skipped in incremental snapshot: 52585.
2011-04-04 03:33:27,530 - INFO: Number of items forced to be excluded: 33.
2011-04-04 03:33:27,530 - INFO: Number of items to be excluded by config: 38.
2011-04-04 03:33:27,531 - INFO: Maximum free size required is '208 MiB 446 KiB 52'.
2011-04-04 03:33:27,531 - INFO: Available disk size is '225645 MiB 948 KiB'.
2011-04-04 03:33:27,538 - INFO: Snapshot is being committed
2011-04-04 03:33:27,572 - INFO: Launching TAR to make incremental backup.

=========================================================================

home-desktop:/mnt/backup/2011-04-04_03.30.48.245392.home-desktop.inc>ll
total 1555328
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin         43 2011-04-04 03:33 base
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin        302 2011-04-04 03:33 excludes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin       3369 2011-04-04 03:33 excludes.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 1591017472 2011-04-04 03:44 files.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin          7 2011-04-04 03:33 format
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin         10 2011-04-04 03:33 includes.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin      49887 2011-04-04 03:33 packages

and it is still growing (it is still running).

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Title:
  Incremental size too large in 0.11.3 and variable with user logged