James Ward wrote:
> I'm running 2.1.2pl1 on debian sarge and have one big BackupPC server
> backing up three big fileservers. I noticed today that the BackupPC
> filesystem is 91% full:
>
> Pool file system was recently at 91% (2/20 23:00), today's max is 91%
> (2/20 08:54) and yesterday's max was 91%.
>
> And I see that I have 3 full backups of all three servers (all
> 1.5-2TB). Figuring that it must be configured to keep 3 fulls, I
> went in to lower the number and find that it's set to 1:
>
> $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 1;
>
> So, my guess is that BackupPC keeps as many fulls as it thinks it can
> get away with, but my concern is what happens if the the servers
> continue to accumulate more data? Am I going to run out of space, or
> will it keep less fulls? And I'm assuming less fulls will only help
> if the data is changing a lot. I believe it is changing a lot on at
> least one of the servers. The biggest server is relatively static.
>
It will also keep any fulls needed to support the number of incrementals
you keep. Normally you end up with one more full than your
FullKeepCnt because of this but it will depend on your incremental
counts. Running fulls more often in the schedule would reduce the need
to keep them as the backing for subsequent incrementals.
Data that does not change between runs should not take additional
storage, but even a slight change will make a new complete copy. If you
have large growing log files you might rotate them more often. If you
have large mailbox files in standard unix format you might convert to
maildir format. This kind of change helps backuppc retain the unchanged
files instead of duplicating the content in growing files.
--
Les Mikesell
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