I finally took time to make some backups of my dear stuff that were spinning on single harddrive on a NAS. I initially uploaded about 2,7TB to BackBlaze and after a few days I did some grooming in the folder I backed up(deleted a few stuff and added some other files and a few reorganizing) and then started a new backup into the same repo.
Though the size difference of the folder was just about 20gb’s before and after grooming and modifying, then my backblaze bucket shows that it takes now 3,5TB. That’s almost 800gb more space occupied!
How is that possible and what can I do to free up the space?
Please provide all of the output from the second restic run where you say that 20 GB was added/modified. Generally speaking restic only adds what it says it adds, it wouldn’t add 800 GB without having a reason to do so.
I can’t remember exactly after which run it started to show the excess allocated space in b2. But here are some outputs.
I compared the first snapshot with all the others.
$ restic snapshots
b50ce0cb 2022-10-10 10:52:33
97f37353 2022-10-10 10:53:07
b434f7ec 2022-10-11 17:55:20
501d56c5 2022-10-12 16:08:25
7ca1466f 2022-10-13 05:39:59
faeda9a8 2022-10-13 21:49:14
2f648f18 2022-10-15 13:28:04
60987456 2022-10-15 16:12:03
0e1c84d7 2022-10-19 04:57:26
$ restic diff b50ce0cb 97f37353
Files: 0 new, 1447 removed, 513 changed
Dirs: 0 new, 20 removed
Others: 0 new, 0 removed
Data Blobs: 536 new, 12050 removed
Tree Blobs: 24 new, 44 removed
Added: 45.301 MiB
Removed: 14.756 GiB
$ restic diff b50ce0cb b434f7ec
Files: 0 new, 1427 removed, 513 changed
Dirs: 0 new, 20 removed
Others: 0 new, 0 removed
Data Blobs: 536 new, 10730 removed
Tree Blobs: 22 new, 42 removed
Added: 32.670 MiB
Removed: 12.907 GiB
$ restic diff b50ce0cb 501d56c5
Files: 0 new, 1427 removed, 513 changed
Dirs: 0 new, 20 removed
Others: 0 new, 0 removed
Data Blobs: 536 new, 10730 removed
Tree Blobs: 22 new, 42 removed
Added: 32.670 MiB
Removed: 12.907 GiB
$ restic diff b50ce0cb 7ca1466f
Files: 0 new, 572 removed, 0 changed
Dirs: 0 new, 8 removed
Others: 0 new, 0 removed
Data Blobs: 0 new, 1478 removed
Tree Blobs: 6 new, 14 removed
Added: 66.899 KiB
Removed: 1.651 GiB
$ restic diff b50ce0cb faeda9a8
Files: 52 new, 1 removed, 1 changed
Dirs: 1 new, 0 removed
Others: 0 new, 0 removed
Data Blobs: 915 new, 2 removed
Tree Blobs: 16 new, 15 removed
Added: 661.591 MiB
Removed: 2.171 MiB
$ restic diff b50ce0cb 2f648f18
Files: 107 new, 0 removed, 524 changed
Dirs: 2 new, 0 removed
Others: 0 new, 0 removed
Data Blobs: 1755 new, 552 removed
Tree Blobs: 34 new, 32 removed
Added: 1.031 GiB
Removed: 35.790 MiB
$ restic diff b50ce0cb 60987456
Files: 1011 new, 0 removed, 651 changed
Dirs: 6 new, 0 removed
Others: 0 new, 0 removed
Data Blobs: 7721 new, 681 removed
Tree Blobs: 41 new, 35 removed
Added: 7.941 GiB
Removed: 38.887 MiB
$ restic diff b50ce0cb 0e1c84d7
Files: 1037 new, 1 removed, 833 changed
Dirs: 8 new, 0 removed
Others: 0 new, 0 removed
Data Blobs: 8072 new, 987 removed
Tree Blobs: 43 new, 35 removed
Added: 8.048 GiB
Removed: 105.074 MiB