Incremental backups too large

Robert DuToit
2008-03-06T03:37:30Z

Hi All,
   Continued good results with rsync 3.0 but I have been noticing that
incremental no-change backups of my Home folder (15Gb, 50,000+- files)
have been using up on average about 500+-MB of disk space. Thinking
back a ways to rsync3.0pre7, or earlier, each incremental took up very
little space for no-changes, maybe 50+Mb of disk space. I can't seem
to see where this is coming from as the output shows mainly just the
list of files checked and very little copying. Nothing obvious
accounts for this amount of disk space used. I am using:

  rsync -aHAXN --fileflags --link-dest=Path_To_Previous_Backup -v --
progress

as options.

Any thoughts on this anyone?   Rob D