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] Surprising disk usage, *not* a link problem (I don't think)

2010-09-17 Thread Chris Hoy Poy
directory has a minimum allocation size on disk. //chris - Original Message - From: Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org To: BackupPC Users backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, 17 September, 2010 1:07:25 AM Subject: [BackupPC-users] Surprising disk usage

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

2010-09-17 Thread Sorin Srbu
usage, *not* a link problem (I don't think) Hi Robin, - is nightly cleanup showing that it actually cleaned stuff up? (I have Nightly cleanup removed 31159 files of size 88.77GB (around 9/17 15:37) or similiar on status) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

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

2010-09-17 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Friday 17 Sep 2010 12:15:49 Chris Hoy Poy wrote: My pool is around 630GB and 3843035 files (so 1/5th the size and only half the number of files), but DF shows it to be 654GB on disk. The first question we should as is Does BackupPC's pool usage report actual file size, or file size on

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

2010-09-16 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I have a fairly large (171 hosts) backup environment that seems to be using rather more disk than it should. GUI says: Pool is 3055.59GB comprising 7361233 files and 4369 directories (as of 9/16 01:33), df says: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/local-backups