Justin Pessa writes: > 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?
Without any information about how big each incremental or full is, we can't tell whether 24 hosts on a single 250GB disk is reasonable or not. Disks are very cheap, so increasing the available storage is an easy option. 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
