On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:25:03PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote: > Robin Lee Powell <rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org> wrote on 10/04/2010 > 03:15:29 PM: > > > How do I find out which backups are using a lot of disk? We'd > > like to see if there's a problem with our retention policy, > > especially on database servers, but I've no insight at all into > > where all this disk is *going*. > > > > Anyone got a script for this? > > I don't have a script for this, but if you look at the host page > for each server, examine the "New Files" section. This will tell > you which backups are consuming a lot of space (i.e. aren't > pooling well).
We have 200+ servers getting backed up on here. :) Good to know where to look, though. > Database servers have the same problem that mail servers have: > large files that change each and every single day, and therefore > consume their full amount of space for each backup you keep. *nod* -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? Read this whitepaper to separate the two and get a better understanding. http://p.sf.net/sfu/hp-phase2-d2d _______________________________________________ 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/
