On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 01:19:10AM +0100, Loic Dachary wrote: > Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > When the backup was interrupted for a few weeks, the next new backup > > didn't benefit from hardlinking. Old backups may be taking too much > > space. > > > > However, when I estimated the extra space, I came to the conclusion > > that the allocated space was enough to store 2 backup sets, so maybe > > something else happened? > > > > In doubt, ditch oldish backup and check if the available space is on > > par with what it was 3 months ago. > > > I think the problem was related to the recent OVH downtime which lasted > more than 24 hours altogether and disrupted the VPN, making it > impossible for the machine to reach petzi. As a consequence one of the > backups was interrupted and the next one had to restart from scratch (or > close to it). > > I removed a few backups and it seems we are back to normal : > yesterday's backup was done in full.
Good :) I wonder if there's a way to fix it. Either: - rsnapshot would _not_ rotate on failure - rsnapshot would --link-dest with all the previous backups (aka zerodeux's trick) ? -- Sylvain _______________________________________________ Project mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/project
