[BackupPC-users] How to run night manually?

2010-09-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:48:55PM +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > Wasn't there a gotcha' running the nightly cleanup manually? Was there? I'd very much like to hear about it. What's the right way to do that? -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (htt

Re: [BackupPC-users] Surprising disk usage, *not* a link problem (I don't think)

2010-09-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 07:15:49PM +0800, Chris Hoy Poy wrote: > Hi Robin, > >- disk fragmentation coupled with minimum file size allocation >issues (?) ie lots of the same large file updated in place >might lead to this scenario, I think? I guess? Don't know how I'd check that. >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trying to get started with backuppc

2010-09-19 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Dennis Blewett wrote: > Yeah, the rsync mirror option sounds pretty good. I think I'll look into > that. > > At the moment, I'm using my laptop as a mobile workstation. As such, I'm > attempting to find a way to hookup the laptop to the server and generate a > bac

[BackupPC-users] Installing Backuppc

2010-09-19 Thread Saturn2888
Try apt-get purge backuppc and see if that helps you. Can someone explain to me why the post box is only 1 line tall? +-- |This was sent by saturn2...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-

Re: [BackupPC-users] Why is the BackupPC pool size 30GB less than the size on the

2010-09-19 Thread Chris Hoy Poy
I have a similiar gap (~25GB) and my understanding of this goes along the lines of: Directories are typically represented as linked-lists of some description. They often grow, but never shrink. They are effectively files that change whenever you change an entry in that directly. They have a min

[BackupPC-users] Why is the BackupPC pool size 30GB less than the size on the

2010-09-19 Thread Saturn2888
Pool is 388.93GB comprising 2139798 files and 4369 directories (as of 2010-09-19 02:38), Pool file system was recently at 77% (2010-09-19 08:23) But df -h shows: /dev/mapper/vg-backuppc 576G 420G 128G 77% /var/lib/backuppc The volume group is only for BackupPC's pool, nothing else. There's