Re: [BackupPC-users] Serious error: last backup ... directory doesn't exist!!! - reason found

2018-03-25 Thread fi
Dear Holger, > f...@igh.de wrote on 2018-03-08 16:59:37 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Serious > error: last backup ... directory doesn't exist!!! - reason found]: > > [...] > > Meanwhile I found the reason: the partition ran out of inodes. As you > > wrote under "

Re: [BackupPC-users] Serious error: last backup ... directory doesn't exist!!! - reason found

2018-03-13 Thread Michael Stowe
On 2018-03-13 16:33, Holger Parplies wrote: My first thought is to avoid the issue altogether by using a file system that doesn't statically allocate inodes (e.g. XFS or reiserfs, the latter I wouldn't recommend for other reasons, though; I don't know about ext4, btrfs and ZFS, but my guess

Re: [BackupPC-users] Serious error: last backup ... directory doesn't exist!!! - reason found

2018-03-13 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, f...@igh.de wrote on 2018-03-08 16:59:37 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Serious error: last backup ... directory doesn't exist!!! - reason found]: > [...] > Meanwhile I found the reason: the partition ran out of inodes. As you > wrote under "How much disk space do I need?&qu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Serious error: last backup ... directory doesn't exist!!! - reason found

2018-03-08 Thread frush
One of the more challenging aspects of this is the number of inodes that BackupPC consumes is directly related to how many inodes you're backing up. If I recall correctly, in BackupPC 4.x, each 'filled' backup will use 2 inodes per object backed up in addition to the inode consumed by the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Serious error: last backup ... directory doesn't exist!!! - reason found

2018-03-08 Thread Alexander Moisseev via BackupPC-users
On 3/8/2018 6:59 PM, f...@igh.de wrote: Craig, again I return to my issue "No space left on device". Meanwhile I found the reason: the partition ran out of inodes. As you wrote under "How much disk space do I need?" one has to have "plenty of inodes". But what does that mean? May I ask the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Serious error: last backup ... directory doesn't exist!!! - reason found

2018-03-08 Thread fi
Craig, again I return to my issue "No space left on device". Meanwhile I found the reason: the partition ran out of inodes. As you wrote under "How much disk space do I need?" one has to have "plenty of inodes". But what does that mean? May I ask the following: - in the "General Server