Fernando Laudares Camargos wrote:
>
>> Fernando Laudares Camargos wrote:
>>> * Why BackupPC_tarPCCopy sometimes produces big tar files ? *
>> Are you doing something to control the timing of your copies compared to
>> the changes backuppc would be making? The files in cpool need to be
>> exactly in sync with the directory snapshots made by BackupPC_tarPCCopy.
>
> I'm doing two things (altough I'm not sure that answer your question
> correctly):
>
> 1) rsync of cpool without --delete (so, cpool will keep growing, no files
> will ever be deleted. I assume that's fine apart from the fact it will take
> more disk space).
BackupPC_nightly may rename chains of hash collisions in cpool as part of its
cleanup. If such a rename occurs between the rsync runs and the
BackupPC_tarPCCopy or restore, you'll end up with links to the wrong files.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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