Les Mikesell wrote at about 17:39:02 -0500 on Tuesday, July 14, 2015: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Jürgen Depicker <jurgen.depic...@let.be> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I wonder what is best practice to prevent the OS partition to fill up when > > my data disk fails. > > > > > > > > My setup: all virtualized; all backups stored in /var/lib/backuppc , but > > that is /dev/sdb1 mounted there. So if that drive fails, I’m pretty sure > > Backuppc will fill up my / partition recreating the backup in the then > > empty > > /var/lib/backuppc . How can I prevent this? > > > > > > > > I guess changing topDir may be an option, but there may be a more elegant > > solution? > > I think that is a fairly unlikely scenario unless it is an external > drive being optionally automounted. When I've seen drive failures on > running systems, the filesystem goes read-only or causes errors > instead of being unmounted, and on boot, failing to mount a partition > listed in fstab is fatal. >
Maybe not too unlikely. I have a consumer NAS device that I NFS mount. One of the disks failed causing the NAS to crash and somehow unmount... A couple of days later I noticed that my root partition was 100% full and couldn't figure out why... Some sleuthing with divide & conquer 'df -s' type commands narrowed it down to /var/lib and then I remembered about the NAS crash. Sure enough /var/lib/Backuppc was full... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ _______________________________________________ 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/
