Guillaume Rousse writes:

> Craig Barratt wrote:
> >>What I don't understand here is why I don't have one full backup from 
> >>one week maximum, and up to six additional daily incremental backups, as 
> >>configured with default values:
> >>$Conf{FullPeriod} = 6.97;
> >>$Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 1;
> >>$Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = 1;
> >>$Conf{FullAgeMax}     = 90;
> >>
> >>$Conf{IncrPeriod} = 0.97;
> >>$Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 6;
> >>$Conf{IncrKeepCntMin} = 1;
> >>$Conf{IncrAgeMax}     = 30;
> >>
> >>There is no available space problem:
> >>/dev/mapper/vg0-lv0   35189500  21006244  13110760  62% /var/lib/backuppc
> > 
> > 
> > These settings should be fine.  What is in the per-PC log files?
> > It should show each backup and expiry.
> Complete log (from the problematic time) included at the end of the
> mail. It seems backuppc tries to create a full backup, but a minor
> failure (empty /var/lib/cvs directory) prevent it to be created.

Ok, that explains why you weren't getting new fulls.
You can also set:

    $Conf{BackupZeroFilesIsFatal} = 0;

if you want to ignore empty backups, but that often indicates
a problem that you should investigate rather than quietly
ignore.

Sounds like the nightly email delivery isn't working on your
server - you should have received emails about this.

Craig


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