First: i'm no linux pro. I started working with my first linux +-14 months
ago. And i'm still learning a lot (So many possible things i want to try
(backupping remote sites!)
Second: BackupPC is great.
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Main problem: backuppc_nightly not running
Backuppc is running on a samba PDC with DHCP / WINS / DDNS running (Debian
Etch). I will be migrating BackupPC to another server as soon as possible,
not completely sure how, but that's another story for later.
There is a problem with backupPC_nightly not running for some time now
(and server running out of diskspace).
And no mails since 26/1 either. Something must have happened/changed one
of those days.
I can't recall what i was doing those days. Maybe setting up the DDNS...
Backuppc is running as backuppc user.
Daily I make a backup of the backuppc partition to an external disk at
22:00. Around 3 a.m. I receive an e-mail with a summary.
/etc/cron.daily/dd_disk:
Stopping backuppc: ok.
Stopping Samba daemons: nmbd smbd.
umount: /dev/sdb1: not mounted
110742061+1 records in
110742061+1 records out
453599483904 bytes (454 GB) copied, 17776.4 seconds, 25.5 MB/s
real 296m16.430s
user 0m37.190s
sys 41m33.888s
Starting backuppc: ok.
Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd.
....
It seems that 28/1 was the last time it ran.
This morning i started the process with:
su backupppc
./BackupPC_serverMesg BackupPC_nightly run
and it is finished after 4 hours.
(While typing this, look below about emails, now i get a mail)
BackupPC_nightly starts the mailing it seems.
450 GB HD (raid 5), i had 66 GB free and i'm up to 180 GB :)
One of the reasons, it's cleaning that much, i guess, is because i have
been changing the amount of full backups to keep last 1.5 month, since
diskspace was slowly running out.
Right now i have 38 WinXP hosts, from which i do a full back keeping 1, 2
and 4 weeks old + 7 incrementals. (FullKeepCnt "2 1")
Pool is steady at 130 GB. Profiles are normally between 1-3 GB big.
Anything i can change to have backuppc_nightly running again
automatically? I didn't change any of the basic settings there:
MaxBackups 2
MaxUserBackups 4
MaxPendingCmds 10
MaxBackupPCNightlyJobs 2
BackupPCNightlyPeriod 1
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Mails sent: 26/1 last mail.
I tested the mailing system:
su backuppc
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail -u [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No problems there
Backuppc settings: EMailNotifyOldBackupDays 7
Though i have a few hosts with Full age
Host User #Full Full Age (days) Full Size (GB) Speed
(MB/s) #Incr
Incr Age (days) Last Backup (days) State Last attempt
mpi024 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3 32.0 5.92 2.30
2 16.1 16.1 idle no
ping (host not found)
mpil21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4 17.1 5.33 2.73 1 115.8
17.1 idle no
ping (host not found)
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Dialy backup to external disk via cron.daily:
invoke-rc.d backuppc stop
invoke-rc.d samba stop
umount /dev/sda5
umount /dev/sdb1
time dd if=/dev/sda5 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4K
mount -a
invoke-rc.d backuppc start
invoke-rc.d samba start
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The servers PID is 5774, on host newton, version 3.0.0, started at 7/3
02:56.
This status was generated at 7/3 08:49.
The configuration was last loaded at 7/3 02:56.
PCs will be next queued at 7/3 09:00.
Other info:
0 pending backup requests from last scheduled wakeup,
0 pending user backup requests,
0 pending command requests,
Pool is 118.49GB comprising 946267 files and 4369 directories (as of 28/1
01:16),
Pool hashing gives 470 repeated files with longest chain 28,
Nightly cleanup removed 673 files of size 0.37GB (around 28/1 01:16),
Pool file system was recently at 84% (7/3 08:46), today's max is 84% (6/3
13:50) and yesterday's max was 52%.
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Thanks for reading.
Greetings,
Koen Linders
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