Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-09 Thread Frédéric Massot
John Rouillard a écrit : On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:49:03PM +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote: Michael Stowe wrote: By the way, what's the point of doing this? Are your drives unreliable? Not really. But the server runs a lot of weeks without checking the disk. I feel better if the disk will be

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-08 Thread Chris Robertson
Matthias Meyer wrote: Is there a way to retain the job queue? Or to check if anything is in it? Not that I'm aware of. In theory, storing the job queue over a shutdown shouldn't be tough (it should just be a matter of writing a construct to a file, and reading it in on startup). At the

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Michael Stowe wrote: By the way, what's the point of doing this? Are your drives unreliable? Not really. But the server runs a lot of weeks without checking the disk. I feel better if the disk will be checked regular. If I determine that there are no errors a couple of month I can stop this

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-08 Thread Michael Stowe
Not really. But the server runs a lot of weeks without checking the disk. I feel better if the disk will be checked regular. If I determine that there are no errors a couple of month I can stop this check anyway. As a general rule, unless the ext3 file system experiences a crash that

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-08 Thread John Rouillard
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:49:03PM +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote: Michael Stowe wrote: By the way, what's the point of doing this? Are your drives unreliable? Not really. But the server runs a lot of weeks without checking the disk. I feel better if the disk will be checked regular. If I

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-07 Thread Michael
Why not ext4? works very well on my setup On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:04 PM, higuitahigu...@gmx.net wrote: Hi On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 08:17:42 -0500, Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote: By the way, what's the point of doing this?  Are your drives unreliable?        even worst... why

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-07 Thread higuita
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 18:04:55 +1200, Michael michael.auckl...@gmail.com wrote: Why not ext4? works very well on my setup well, AFAIK, it also have a inode limit, but the max its too large to be a problem... yet, i dont know what default limit it have but the main

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-06 Thread Matthias Meyer
Chris Robertson wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote: Hello, I plan to periodically e2fsck my /var/lib/backuppc. I want to write a bash script which check if BackupPC_dump is running. If not, it will stop backuppc, unmount the device and run e2fsck -fp $device What is about BackupPC_link? Should

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-06 Thread Michael Stowe
By the way, what's the point of doing this? Are your drives unreliable? Chris Robertson wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote: Hello, I plan to periodically e2fsck my /var/lib/backuppc. I want to write a bash script which check if BackupPC_dump is running. If not, it will stop backuppc, unmount

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-06 Thread higuita
Hi On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 08:17:42 -0500, Michael Stowe mst...@chicago.us.mensa.org wrote: By the way, what's the point of doing this? Are your drives unreliable? even worst... why are you using ext3? ever think in switching to reiserfs, xfs or jfs? they should perform

[BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-04 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hello, I plan to periodically e2fsck my /var/lib/backuppc. I want to write a bash script which check if BackupPC_dump is running. If not, it will stop backuppc, unmount the device and run e2fsck -fp $device What is about BackupPC_link? Should I check for this process too? There are further

Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc

2009-09-04 Thread Chris Robertson
Matthias Meyer wrote: Hello, I plan to periodically e2fsck my /var/lib/backuppc. I want to write a bash script which check if BackupPC_dump is running. If not, it will stop backuppc, unmount the device and run e2fsck -fp $device What is about BackupPC_link? Should I check for this process