Hi Craig,

Thnx for speedy reply..

I found the following in the error log file (through the cgi interface) :

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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
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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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