Hi there, On Thu, 24 Mar 2022, Edward Cotter wrote:
New user to your mailing list and completely new to the product.
Hello and welcome. A BackupPC system is necessarily and unfortunately a little complex, but I'm sure you'll get the hang of it given time. It's not exactly a 'product', it's more a sort of adventure.
As Senior IT Admin - tasked with resolving issues with our existing backup solution through your software.
Given other things in your mail I'm not sure I understand you - do you intend to replace BackupPC with something else or are you replacing an existing backup system with BackupPC?
These alerts are coming out everyday for our company - looking for basic guidance and direction with suggested steps to resolve to avoid any data loss for our organization. Please advise at your earliest convenience.
Well short of deleting old backups, if the filesystem that you've told BackupPC to use is very nearly full then there's little that it can do to help you. Either delete some junk from the system, or failing that make the filesystem bigger. You might simply need to buy and install a bigger storage device, and copy the data from the old device to the new one, or add a device to a RAID array, or ... this kind of thing is probably the job of the Senior IT Admin. :)
... Working to discover the file system location /srv/backuppc to see what space is available and if it can be expanded. ... | Yesterday 156 hosts were skipped because the file system containing | /srv/backuppc/ was too full. The threshold in the configuration | file is 95%, while yesterday the file system was up to 97% full. | Please find more space on the file system, or reduce the number of | full or incremental backups that we keep. | Regards, | PC Backup Genie
Some familiarity with Linux or other Unix-like system is more or less a prerequisite for working with BackupPC. Look at the 'man' pages for the 'mount' and 'df' commands to see how to find the storage space used and available, and the 'cd' and 'ls' commands will let you romp around the filesystems investigating their contents. According to your log snippets the filesystem in use by BackupPC is 97% full, so it seems likely that you're already in dangerous territory and need to do something about it quickly. When the filesystem does not have enough storage space available, it might not be just BackupPC which fails as a reasult. I'd cheerfully log in remotely and take a look at your system with no obligation, and you'd be crazy to let me do that. Be *careful* what you do when you're logged in as the 'root' user. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
