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

2015-07-15 Thread Jürgen Depicker
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 8:29 PM, backu...@kosowsky.org 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 jurgen.depic...@let.be 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

[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

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 jurgen.depic...@let.be wrote: My setup

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 jurgen.depic...@let.be 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

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

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, backu...@kosowsky.org 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 jurgen.depic...@let.be wrote: Hello, I wonder what is best practice to prevent the OS

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 jurgen.depic...@let.be wrote: Hello, I wonder what is best practice to prevent the OS partition to fill up when my data disk fails. My setup:

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 jurgen.depic...@let.be 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.