I just recognized that my daily GitLab CE backup is groing. Before 14.10.0 it was arount 10GB each day. Now its araound 10GB more day by day. Today its araound 200GB.
I found that there are files in the tar that do not exist in the repository directory that are a kind of copy of the previous version of the project. It has the name and timestamp of a previous backup.
This means: The TAR of today also includes the repo data from lots of days before, including the state of today.
(Sorry for the bad “hiding” quality. I’m not good with my trackball mouse to paint lines )
In the screenshot you see the backups from the days before included in the todays backup. These files do not exist on disk, only inside the TAR archive.
I don’t see the need to hide those hashes (and db - that you haven’t hidden, probably assuming it wasn’t) is actually a part of the hash (it’s the 3rd and 4th (hexadecimal) digit of it).
It sounds similar to what I reported yesterday in:
if you also think so, consider chiming in there to say that others are seeing it too, and describe your experience+findings.
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