Package: backupninja Version: 0.9.6-4 Severity: important Hi.
I think that the current way the duplicity handler works can lead to filling the disks, in a dangerous way. Currently, with incremental mode selected for duplicity, it will perform endless incremental backups as there's no use of --full-if-older-than to perform a full backup every now and then. So, the keep settings doesn't seem to apply, if I understand it correctly, as nothing can be removed from a list of incremental backups without a full backup happening in between. This leads to having a duplicity cache grow unlimited, unless a manual duplicity full backup is performed by the admin. It's even tricky, as if one admin removes /root/.cache/duplicity, as he/she notices that it's growing dangerously, then on next backupninja execution, it will be refilled again from a copy of the incremental files stored on the backend :(. This is a risk for the file system free space obviously... even more dangerous if duplicity is run by backupninja as root (filling /root/.cache/duplicity/). I may be wrong, but I think that unless #535996 is implemented, there's a problem here. Now, hopefully, it shouldn't be too hard to add --full-if-older-than (see attached patch to #535996). Hope this helps. Best regards, -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages backupninja depends on: ii bash 4.1-1 The GNU Bourne Again SHell ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20090911cvs-2 simple mail user agent ii dialog 1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii gawk 1:3.1.6.dfsg-4 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr ii mawk 1.3.3-15 a pattern scanning and text proces backupninja recommends no packages. Versions of packages backupninja suggests: ii cdrdao 1:1.2.2-18.1 records CDs in Disk-At-Once (DAO) ii debconf-utils 1.5.28 debconf utilities ii dvd+rw-tools 7.1-6 DVD+-RW/R tools ii genisoimage 9:1.1.10-1 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem ii hwinfo 16.0-2 Hardware identification system ii mdadm 3.0.3-2 tool to administer Linux MD arrays ii rdiff-backup 1.2.8-6 remote incremental backup ii wodim 9:1.1.10-1 command line CD/DVD writing tool -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
