Sure we have and that's actually what we are doing. But until that is in place we need a workaround which is excluding stuff. So I would like to understand why the system behaves this way when I exclude a directory.
On October 19, 2023 12:37:05 PM GMT+02:00, Paul Leyland <paul.leyl...@gmail.com> wrote: >This may sound fatuous but I am serious. Have you considered installing more >disk(s)? > >Sometimes throwing hardware rather than liveware at a problem is more >cost-effective. The former gets ever cheaper whereas the latter is ever more >expensive. > >I doubled the size of my pool over the last year by replacing each element of >the RAID array in turn, thereby maintaining continuous service. > > >Paul > >On 14/10/2023 21:43, marki wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm having a hard time here excluding stuff starting with the next backup. >> >> The problem is the disk containing the pools is not large enough to host >> more full backups. >> But we don't want to touch our retention policy for now, so we are trying to >> exclude some things starting now. >> But it's not working, details below: >> >> An example/lab: >> Let's say we add /path/to/exclusion to the exclusion list. >> In this example 2845 is the last full, and I'm trying to do another full >> which is going to be 2846. >> However 2846 seems to be populated with the content from 2845 (including the >> stuff I have excluded). >> It looks like it's first copying all the stuff from 2845 (even the excluded >> path) and then later tries to remove it again from 2846. >> Which is also taking forever in the original example as it's a directory >> tree with millions of files. >> Also in the original example the disk isn't large enough, so we're not even >> making it to that stage. >> >> How do I actually exclude a path from the next backup, such that it is not >> even temporarily created? >> I.e. such that the disk doesn't fill up AND such that it is fast. >> >> Thanks, >> Marki >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > > >_______________________________________________ >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/
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