> Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Thanks for your sympathy :-) >> I would believe the filesystem should be ok in the meantime. e2fsck needs >> to run 3 or 4 times and need in total more than 2 days. After this >> lost+found contains approximately 10% of my data :-( No chance to >> reconstruct all of them. >> >> 1) So you would recommend: >> mv /var/lib/backuppc/cpool /var/lib/backuppc/cpool.sav >> mkdir /var/lib/backuppc/cpool >> I would believe that the hardlinks >> from /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<host>/<backup-number> than will point to >> cpool.sav instead cpool? >> The disadvantage is that up to now every file have to be created in the >> new cpool. No one of the existing files (in cpool.sav) can be reused. >> By deleting of old backups during the next month, the cpool.sav should be >> empty and can be deleted than. >> >> 2) I would believe that every backuped file will be checked against >> cpool. Is it not identical than a new file will be created in cpool. >> During the deletion of old backups also old, (maybee corrupt) files in >> cpool will be deleted. So possible corrupt files in cpool will disappear >> automaticly during the next month. >> >> Which strategy would you prefer? >> >> Thanks > > In 1) I was a bit vague: I meant moving all data (to be used only if > needed, including cpool) and making fresh backups altogether. And > exactly that will make it effortless for you - the new pool is clean. > > In 2) you are correct unless you are using checksum caching. To clean > unused files you need nightly, and to use that you want a clean pool. > > Go for 2) if there are few errors that you can correct yourself to keep > BackupPC running smoothly with an unbroken line of backups. > > However, 10 GB sounds like you'll save time and trouble by allowing > backuppc to make new backups - if you can afford the bandwidth. At the > same time you won't have to worry about many factors that could go wrong. > > Regards, > Johan > ok.I wil give 2) a chance and will test it for at least one month.
Should I delete all directories in /var/lib/backuppc/cpool/?/?/?/* or would BackupPC_nightly do this job? Should I reactivate BackupPC_nightly? Regards Matthias -- Don't Panic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
