Hi Craig, Thnx for speedy reply.. I found the following in the error log file (through the cgi interface) : ---------- full backup started for directory backup (baseline backup #28) Connected to garith:873, remote version 29 Negotiated protocol version 28 Connected to module backup Sending args: --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . . Xfer PIDs are now 9626 [ skipped 5071 lines ] .wine/drive_c/THE_FILM/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB: md4 doesn't match: will retry in phase 1; file removed .wine/drive_c/THE_FILMSVIDEO_TS/VTS_03_2.VOB: md4 doesn't match: will retry in phase 1; file removed [ skipped 4630 lines ] .wine/drive_c/THE_FILM/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB: fatal error: md4 doesn't match on retry; file removed MD4 does't agree: fatal error on #5071 (.wine/drive_c/THE_FILM/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB) .wine/drive_c/THE_FILM/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_2.VOB: fatal error: md4 doesn't match on retry; file removed MD4 does't agree: fatal error on #5072 (.wine/drive_c/THE_FILM/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_2.VOB) Done: 8305 files, 1152459869 bytes---------- I wonder why the checksums don't match.. this is the root of my problem then it seems.. Ne suggestions? Thnx again, Craig Barratt wrote: Garith Dugmore writes:I'm running backuppc 3 beta but found some files aren't being pooled and taking up huge amounts of disk space. For example if i check the inodes of the same file across a few random backups of a single workstation i get: ls -li ./25/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB ./24/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB ./23/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB ./28/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB ./26/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB 3758108800 -rw-r----- 1 apache garith 1046993128 Nov 6 16:22 ./23/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB 536884889 -rw-r----- 1 apache garith 1046993128 Nov 8 09:02 ./24/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB 2684362650 -rw-r----- 1 apache garith 1046993128 Nov 8 15:10 ./25/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB 3221232291 -rw-r----- 1 apache garith 1046993128 Nov 9 15:02 ./26/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB 536913559 -rw-r----- 1 apache garith 1046993128 Nov 13 12:03 ./28/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB The size of 1046993128 is the same over all 5 files but the inodes are all different. After reading: *Identical Files* BackupPC pools identical files using hardlinks. By ``identical files'' we mean files with identical contents, not necessary the same permissions, ownership or modification time. Two files might have different permissions, ownership, or modification time but will still be pooled whenever the contents are identical. This is possible since BackupPC stores the file meta-data (permissions, ownership, and modification time) separately from the file contents. I thought that these files will be hardlinked and therefore save some space.. I do find though that a good few other files are hardlinked properly just not the ones above. [EMAIL PROTECTED] garith]# find . -links 2 | wc -l 12306 [EMAIL PROTECTED] garith]# find . -links 3 | wc -l 2836 [EMAIL PROTECTED] garith]# find . -links 4 | wc -l 3055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] garith]# find . -links 5 | wc -l 22130 [EMAIL PROTECTED] garith]# find . -links 6 | wc -l 1393 [EMAIL PROTECTED] garith]# find . -links 7 | wc -l 622 etc.... Attached is my config.pl file. In my per pc config file i have:Hmmm. First please check if the files are really the, eg: cmp ./25/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB ./24/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB cmp ./23/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB ./28/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB cmp ./25/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB ./26/fbackup/f.wine/fdrive_c/fTHE_FILM/fVIDEO_TS/fVTS_03_1.VOB Second, was your hardlink check for the same host? You should double check that this host is really on the same file system as the cpool directory (eg: sometimes people try incorrectly to use symlinks for TOPDIR/pc/HOST). You check with this: df TOPDIR/pc/HOST df TOPDIR/cpool Finally, are there any errors in the XferLOG file? Craig -- Garith Dugmore Systems Administrator South African Astronomical Observatory Phone: 021 460 9343 Website: http://www.saao.ac.za |
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