Joe Bayes wrote:
> I've got a Fedora 8 system, running BackupPC 3.1.0-1 out of the
> rpm. I've run into several problems with BackupPC.
>
> My problems:
>
> (1) The size of the backed-up data increases by 32GB every time I do a
> full backup. I suspect that BackupPC is storing a separate copy of
> each identical file for each full backup. Is this supposed to happen?
No, all identical files are supposed to be replaced with a link to a
common pooled copy.
> (4) The Server Status page claims that
> "Pool is 0.00GB comprising 0 files and 0 directories (as of 2/10 03:00)"
> This is not true -- my "pc" directory is 64GB. (the cpool directory is
> still empty). This problem is also not critical, but it may shed some
> light on the situation.
Are your logs full of "can't link" errors?
> Thanks for any help you can offer. If there are any other details that
> you need, please ask.
The obvious things to check are that the cpool and pc directories are on
the same filesystem and writable by the backuppc user, and that the
filesystem has some free space and inodes (df -i) available. Since this
is fedora, having SELinux in enforcing mode can also cause mysterious
permission problems. Packaged programs are supposed to adjust the
policies to permit what they need, but there are still problems with this.
--
Les Mikesell
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