[BackupPC-users] Excessive Disk Usage

[Justin Pessa]

I've been banging my head against the wall with a problem I've been having with BackupPC using an excessive amount of disk space. I'm sure this has something to do with hard links, but I'm not certain.

I've BackupPC to keep 5 incremental backups and have old backups removed from the pool after 20 days. I've got 24 hosts and together they are using an entire 250gb disk. As result the backups have reached the 99% threshhold and do not run.

There are a lot of files being backed up and I suspect that the size of the backup can be greatly reduced so that 250gb of space is enough to keep 3-5 incrementals and 2 fulls. I make weekly dumps of the live disk which are moved offsite. I feel there is enough space to keep new backups coming in, while the old backups are being removed as files are also rotated into our yearly off site cycle. What do you think?

Here is a link to my config file: http://pastebin.com/370100
A link to my log: http://pastebin.com/370114

Please CC me back any remarks, ideas, critiques to my setup. Thanks!

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- justin

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