On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Joe Casadonte wrote:
>
>> BackupPC: version 3.0.0beta3 OS: FC5 Much to my horror last night I
>> discovered that I ran out of disk space on my backup server back in
>> October (thankfully I did not learn this the hard way).
>
> It should have stopped doing backups when you had used 95% of the
> space and sent you email as soon as some machine had gone a few days
> without backups unless you changed the defaults. There was a bug in
> earlier versions where the email didn't get sent if backups were
> skipped because the space was low. I'm not sure when this was
> fixed.
I'm guessing sometime after 3.0.0beta3 :)
> If the backuppc archive isn't on it's own partition, you might have
> some large logfiles (or spooled mail files) taking space.
I have less than 4 GB of non-backup data files.
> That's correct - unless your cpool directory is on a different
> partition than the pc directory and all the attempts to link files
> are failing.
They are in the same partition, but their sizes are quite different:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] shadow]# pwd
/shadow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] shadow]# du -s -k *
44950848 BackupPC
163281868 data
[EMAIL PROTECTED] data]# pwd
/shadow/BackupPC/data
[EMAIL PROTECTED] data]# du -s -k *
4 cpool
44950636 pc
4 pool
4 trash
Shouldn't they be the same size (or at least nearly so)?
> Yes, but large files that change slightly can be a problem, like
> mail files in unix mbox format (all messages in one file), database
> files, or virtual machine images. You'll get a complete separate
> copy if a single byte changes.
But wouldn't that all be accounted for in the File Size/Count Reuse
Summary?
> The 'new files' in your listing didn't look like they should be a
> problem. I'd look for anything else that might be using space first
> ("du -s *" in /var, for example).
Pretty much all of it is accounted for between the BackupPC and data
directories shown above.
I remembered this afternoon that I had a second portable hard drive at
one point that had a lot of live music on it, that accidentally got
backed up one evening. I remembering reading somewhere that deleting
the host would remove the files -- maybe that didn't work? I don't
know that this would account for the extra data, though.
Thanks for the help!
--
Regards,
joe
Joe Casadonte
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