Other stuff
===========

This chapter discusses topics that do not warrant a chapter of their
own, such as compressing backups and running Obnam from cron.

k4dirstat cache files
---------------------

[k4dirstat] is a utility for visualising the disk space used by a
directory tree. Obnam's `kdirstat` command can be used to produce a
listing of the contents of a generation in a format which can be read
by k4dirstat using `File`, `Read Cache File` from the k4dirstat
menu. e.g.

    $ obnam kdirstat --client CLIENT --generation GENID > CLIENT.kdirstat.cache
    $ gzip -v9 CLIENT.kdirstat.cache # OPTIONAL

`CLIENT.kdirstat.cache[.gz]` can now be read by `k4dirstat`.

[k4dirstat]: https://bitbucket.org/jeromerobert/k4dirstat/wiki/Home