I discovered the problem was with my rsync excludes. See my post "questions about rsync excludes"
Rob Owens wrote: > On my first full backup, I filled a 178 GB drive even though it was only > supposed to be backing up about 120 GB of data (reported by 'du -csh'). > I'm using rsync as the transport (the host is a Linux machine). > > Any ideas why this might be? Rsync is using the --links option, so it > shouldn't be following any links to other directories. When I eliminate > /home from the list of directories to backup (leaving only /etc and > /usr/local/bin), the problem goes away. > > Since the first backup ends with an error, the cgi interface isn't > allowing me to browse the backups that did tranfer. Is there an easy > way for me to browse them manually? By the way, I'm not using > compression but all the files seem to be located in > /var/lib/backuppc/cpool (I expected them to be in 'pool'). > > I'm using the 2.something package for Ubuntu 6.06 -- sorry, I don't have > access to that machine right now or I'd give you the exact version number. > > Thanks for any advice you can offer. > > -Rob > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
