Wolfgang Karall writes: > I'm happily using BackupPC both in some companies and also at home. And > while all installations work perfectly (rsync-compatibility issues > aside, but that's not BackupPC's fault), I have a question about my home > installation. > > That server is not running all the time, most of the days it's shutdown > for the night. Hence I run BackupPC_nightly from a daily cronjob with > > su -c '/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255' backuppc > > (this is a Debian unstable installation, btw) > > This seems to work fine, but on the General Status Information page I > still read > > * Pool is 16.00GB comprising 521616 files and 4369 directories (as of > 1/14 01:04), > ... > * Nightly cleanup removed 2906 files of size 0.09GB (around 1/14 01:04), > * Pool file system was recently at 65% (6/1 09:00), today's max is 92% > (2/7 14:00) and yesterday's max was 55%. > > which is weird, as in, the dates for some of the values is completely > wrong, as are of course the ##GB values. > > At the moment I'm not too worried about it, but I wonder whether this > can be a problem if the filesystem is filling up, etc., so I'd like to > know how or when BackupPC is updating those values and if I can manually > trigger this process.
The problem is that BackupPC_nightly generates output that the server parses so it can update the stats. If you run it manually then the server doesn't get to update the results. The CGI script asks the server the current stats, which will just be the old values in your case. Craig _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
