Re: [BackupPC-users] prevent full OS partition when data disk fails

2015-07-15 Thread Jürgen Depicker
nline below. > Van: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] > Verzonden: woensdag 15 juli 2015 4:44 > Aan: General list for user discussion, questions and support > Onderwerp: Re: [BackupPC-users] prevent full OS partition when data disk fails > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 8:

Re: [BackupPC-users] prevent full OS partition when data disk fails

2015-07-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 8:29 PM, wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote at about 17:39:02 -0500 on Tuesday, July 14, 2015: > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Jürgen Depicker > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > > > I wonder what is best practice to prevent the OS partition to fill up > when

Re: [BackupPC-users] prevent full OS partition when data disk fails

2015-07-14 Thread backuppc
Les Mikesell wrote at about 17:39:02 -0500 on Tuesday, July 14, 2015: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Jürgen Depicker > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I wonder what is best practice to prevent the OS partition to fill up when > > my data disk fails. > > > > > > > > My setup: all

Re: [BackupPC-users] prevent full OS partition when data disk fails

2015-07-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Jürgen Depicker wrote: > Hello, > > > > I wonder what is best practice to prevent the OS partition to fill up when > my data disk fails. > > > > My setup: all virtualized; all backups stored in /var/lib/backuppc , but > that is /dev/sdb1 mounted there. So if that

Re: [BackupPC-users] prevent full OS partition when data disk fails

2015-07-14 Thread Paolo Basenghi
If you did follow BPC install instructions, BPC should work with a non root user (say backuppc). Then you can give mount point directory restrictive permissions (while backuppc filesystem is unmounted): /etc/init.d/backuppc stop (or similar) umount /dev/sdb1 chown root.root /var/lib/backuppc ch

Re: [BackupPC-users] prevent full OS partition when data disk fails

2015-07-14 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 11:40:58 + Jürgen Depicker wrote: > Unmounting /dev/sdb1 while Backuppc > service is running is not possible either, > so my other option would be > to shutdown one of the virtual disk servers which I don't really want > to do... Greetings, J Simpler answer: IF you left

Re: [BackupPC-users] prevent full OS partition when data disk fails

2015-07-14 Thread Jürgen Depicker
> Van: B [mailto:lazyvi...@gmx.com] > Verzonden: dinsdag 14 juli 2015 13:13 > Aan: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Onderwerp: Re: [BackupPC-users] prevent full OS partition when data disk fails > > On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:31:42 + > Jürgen Depicker wrote:

Re: [BackupPC-users] prevent full OS partition when data disk fails

2015-07-14 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:31:42 + Jürgen Depicker wrote: > My setup: all virtualized; all backups stored in /var/lib/backuppc , > but that is /dev/sdb1 mounted there. So if that drive fails, I'm > pretty sure Backuppc will fill up my / partition recreating the backup > in the then empty /var/li

[BackupPC-users] prevent full OS partition when data disk fails

2015-07-14 Thread Jürgen Depicker
Hello, I wonder what is best practice to prevent the OS partition to fill up when my data disk fails. My setup: all virtualized; all backups stored in /var/lib/backuppc , but that is /dev/sdb1 mounted there. So if that drive fails, I'm pretty sure Backuppc will fill up my / partition recreati