My suggestion, in the future, would be to consider creating the partition under
Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM). What LVM does is to create a pool of small
chunks of the hard drive ("extents") that can be added and removed from a given
filesystem. In the case of additions, in many cases (such as with ReiserFS),
this can be done "on the fly."
For instance, in my case. my backup partition is /var/lib/backuppc, the
"physical" (LVM) partition is /dev/vg00/backup. For me to extend the partition
by 40GB would require the following two commands:
lvextend -L+40G /dev/vg00/backup
resize_reiserfs /dev/vg00/backup
Since the partition doesn't have to be unmounted, activity on the partition is
not affected by these commands. I have a PVR on my workstation, and was
recording a movie once, and had to extend the partition. It did not affect
recording.
HTH,
--b
----- Original Message -----
From: Troy Piggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: BackupPC List <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:37:38 AM GMT-0500 US/Eastern
Subject: [BackupPC-users] out of disk space - big oops
By default my backuppc is backing up to
/var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost for example. I back up only 2
machines - localhost (Ubuntu linux) via tar and a WindowsXP via smb.
All was going well until I added some dirs from the Windows
machine, the backup jumped to about 40Gb and has filled the disk.
I only have 1.5Mb free space on drive /var is mounted on. Unless
you've done this before, you have no idea how hard it is to do
things with no spare space.
As I type this I am
'cp -a /var/lib/backuppc/pc/windows /mnt/hda4' to get windows off
to another partition. Then I'll 'sudo rm -rf
/var/lib/backuppc/pc/windows' to free the space.
My questions:
- is there a better way to migrate in future?
- is there a way to tell backuppc to store backups somewhere
else? or should I just mount another partition to
/var/lib/backuppc/pc or similar?
Any recommendations?
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