Dear List,
running BackupPC v4 I sometimes ran out of i-nodes.
I have about twelve servers to backup with a total amount of about 2
TB and aboz 20 million files. I keep about 50 backups.
On an ext4 file system it is likely to run out of i-nodes rather than
to run out of disk space (this
Dear Holger,
> f...@igh.de wrote on 2018-03-08 16:59:37 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Serious
> error: last backup ... directory doesn't exist!!! - reason found]:
> > [...]
> > Meanwhile I found the reason: the partition ran out of inodes. As you
> > wrote under "How much disk space do I need?"
Craig,
again I return to my issue "No space left on device".
Meanwhile I found the reason: the partition ran out of inodes. As you
wrote under "How much disk space do I need?" one has to have "plenty
of inodes". But what does that mean?
May I ask the following:
- in the "General Server
Dear Craig,
> Thanks for the additional info, but I can't explain the behavior your are
> seeing. Sending to the user-list to see if others have suggestions.
>
> BackupPC seems to be unable to create directories and files below
> /vol/bpc4/BackupPC. The "No space left on device" errno seems
Dear BackupPC Users,
I am running BackupPC-4.1.3 for several months without problems
(really a great piece of software).
About a week ago a strange type of error occured and keeps staying,
which I cannot understand. The error messages are like this ("fs" is
the name of one of my systems to be
Dear Craig,
On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 07:30:00PM -0700, Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
wrote:
> I would like to understand the steps you took.
>
> First, by "server A" and "server B" you mean clients that BackupPC backs up?
yes - from my point of view they are file servers, but you are
Dear BackupPC Users,
recently I made a mistake:
I moved a share "data" from an old server A to a new server B. Then on
my BackupPC I deleted "A:data", created the new host B and added a
share "data" to the new one, having "B:data". Naively I assumed that
this would keep also the history from
