On Sunday 25 September 2005 09:30 pm, Craig Barratt wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the response. I had inherited this setup, so after a lot of trugging through the pc/ directory I realized that someone had made editions to the 'backup' file and as result there were backup folders taking up disk space unbeknownst to BackupPC. I manually removed the unused ones (we keep one full backup and 5 incrementals as stated above) and then ran the nightly task manually and things seem to be under control again. > > Disks are very cheap, so increasing the available storage > is an easy option. Agreed! I'm going to buy 4 400GB Seagate 'Cudas so I can head off this problem for some time. :) > > 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/
