That worked like a charm...thanks! Arch
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete a Backup On 10/24 10:57 , Arch Willingham wrote: > When I looked at the explanation you gave him, the first place I got lost > was on the "or if you're impatient you can do what Holger suggests"....I > couldn't find what Holger suggests in the archives. That's why I included it. I know that searching the archives is troublesome. :) >>> >>> BackupPC_nightly and BackupPC_link must *not* run concurrently. Thus, you should *not* run BackupPC_nightly outside the daemon. If you must, then run it via the daemon, which will postpone it until no more BackupPC_link processes are running, and likewise postpone further links until nightly has finished: BackupPC_serverMesg BackupPC_nightly run BackupPC_serverMesg log Thank you, daemon. I appreciate your effort. >>> > I'm impatient and I'd love to do whatever he suggests. the gist of it is to run a command like: /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg BackupPC_nightly run The path shown above (/usr/share/backuppc/bin/) works if you're using the Debian package. Probably works for the Ubuntu package as well. Modify it if necessary for your own purposes. Unless you're really short on space, the easy thing to do is to just let it run overnight, which accomplishes the same thing (the job gets run once a day by default). > Next, I'll be darned if I can figure out what "BackupPC_nightly and > BackupPC_link must *not* run concurrently" means with respect to the two > process names. I have a service that runs backuppc and I am missing what > those two tasks are or where they come from. BackupPC_link and BackupPC_nightly are two processes spawned by backuppc in order to do various tasks. As I understand it: BackupPC_nightly - goes through the data pool and cleans up any files that have a refcount of 1 (i.e. they're only present in /var/lib/backuppc/cpool; and not in any of the per-machine directories under /var/lib/backppc/pc/). BackupPC_link - runs after every backup and links files into the data pool. My understanding is incomplete however, so don't take my word as gospel. :) -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: 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] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
