Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom writes: > I'm running out of disk space on my backup server, and it's run out of space > on a couple of occasions. when it does this, some hosts 'forget' all their old > backups -- those backups no longer appear in the pc/<hostname>/backups file. > > I know the backups.old file has a copy of the last known-good backups file; > but what happens if that one is bad as well? (Machine runs out of space, > space is freed, a running backup is shut down, a bad backup file is written > and clobbers the old backups.old file). > > I think this has been discussed on the list in the past; but can someone > remind me how to rebuild a backups file based on the actual directories > present? > > This is something that probably should be added to the docs.
I need to write a script that does this for you. It could also be done manually. Some information (eg: number of files backed up, total size) takes more work to recreate since it requires the backed-up tree to be traversed. But that information is only used for stats/display, so it is not critical. Some information (eg: full vs incr) probably needs to extracted from the per-PC LOG file. Some information (eg: existing count and size of files in pool) is not easy to reconstruct, but again it only used for stats/display. Anyhow, this is something I should work on. Do you need a solution quickly? Craig ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
