On May 24, 2010, at 12:27 , Chris Dennis wrote: > On 22/05/10 11:44, Chris Dennis wrote: >> Hello BackupPC people >> >> I've been running BackupPC for a few years, backing up assorted >> machines >> on my home network. >> >> Recently I've noticed that it no longer reports any "New Files" in >> the >> File Size/Count Reuse Summary. >> >> Here's a typical table (edited, removing the Totals columns, to >> make it >> fit): >> >> Existing Files New Files >> Backup# Type #Files Size/MB #Files Size/MB >> 593 full 825204 236759.2 1469 953.7 >> 618 full 825674 233138.7 3654 1131.9 >> 645 full 781402 233970.1 0.0 >> 672 full 795100 246194.7 0.0 >> 680 full 797542 240768.9 0.0 >> 685 full 797997 249227.5 0.0 >> 692 full 521799 37079.7 0.0 >> 693 incr 60955 783.8 0.0 >> 694 incr 61181 784.2 0.0 >> 695 incr 60683 801.1 0.0 >> 696 incr 65160 821.8 0.0 >> 697 incr 65168 821.8 0.0 >> 698 incr 65254 822.4 0.0 >> >> Backup 618 is dated 9 Feb 2010, no. 645 is dated 9 March 2010. Did >> something change between those two dates? > > I eventually realised that there was an error in my setup. > > My BackupPC database is on /media/backuppc (on an external hard > drive), > and there is a symbolic link from /var/lib/backuppc to /media/ > backuppc. > Or rather there should be -- probably on a recent update, the link at > /var/lib/backuppc got replaced by an empty directory. > > Having corrected that, the "New Files" listings have all magically > reappeared. > > Which is fair enough, but it's weird that nearly all of BackupPC knew > where my database was while a few bits, such as the New Items > statistics, were looking at an empty folder. > > Hopefully this being in the archive will help someone else in the > future. > > cheers > > Chris >
I had this problem too. And it was also causing my backups to take a _really_ long time... I couldn't quite get the symlink to make it work, so I ended up just mounting the disk where my backups go into / var/lib/backuppc and all was well. Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
