"Craig O'Brien" <cobr...@fishman.com> wrote on 10/29/2013 01:53:31 PM:
> On the General Server Information page, it says "Pool is 2922.42GB
> comprising 6061942 files and 4369 directories," but our pool file
> system which contains nothing but backuppc and is 11 TB in size is 100%
full.
My strong guess is that, while you *think* nothing else is out there, that
is not the case! :)
> I'm confused how this happened and even ran the BackupPC_nightly
> script by hand which didn't seem to clear up any space. Judging by
> the reported pool size it should be less than 30% full. I could
> really use some help. Thanks in advance for any ideas on how to go
> about troubleshooting this.
>From the other message, it seems that the filesystem you're worried about
is /home. What is the TopDir of BackupPC? I assume it's something like
/home/backuppc (or I sure hope it is!). Go to that path and type:
du -hs
This will take a *long* time: BackupPC has a *lot* of files. I would
also hope that you see a number very similar to the pool size report
above.
So, if you find that your BackupPC TopDir contents (what you verified with
du -hs) reports match the GUI, then you know that there's something on the
drive but *outside* of the BackupPC TopDir. Find it and delete it.
Because du -hs of the pool takes so long, you could, of course, do it the
*other* way: do a du -hs of each directory *besides* your TopDir and see
how much space is being used by them. Depends on how many other folders
you have how hard that would be. But when you see some other folder using
8TB, you'll know where the space went!
However, if you find that your du -hs does *not* match your GUI report,
then you have to look more closely. Have you *EVER* done anything from
the command line inside of the TopDir? Given that you mention running
BackupPC_nightly by hand, I suspect you of monkeying with things, and that
very well may have broken things. Tell us what you did! :)
(It's not that you can't run BackupPC_nightly by hand; you can. It's
more that if you're brave enough to run it by hand, there's no telling
what *else* you might have done, and how you might have broken things! :)
).
If you can't tell, I suspect something outside of BackupPC has used the
space, *or* that you moved/copied/etc. something using tools outside of
the BackupPC system and have broken things unintentionally. It is very
unlikely that BackupPC is wrong on its pool report. Most likely it's
something *else* that is consuming the space, and because of that all the
BackupPC_nightly in the world isn't going to free up the space.
Tim Massey
Out of the Box Solutions, Inc.
Creative IT Solutions Made Simple!
http://www.OutOfTheBoxSolutions.com
tmas...@obscorp.com
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St. Clair Shores, MI 48080
Office: (800)750-4OBS (4627)
Cell: (586)945-8796
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