Greeting BackupPC users:
I am new to linux (using Ubuntu v7.10) and to using BackupPC (v3.1.0). I do
not understand the BacupPC behavior I observe during a full backup of my
client. This is the first attempt, no other backup data files exist on the
BacupPC server. My client has 12GB of data and I would expect 12GB of data to
be copied and saved onto the BacupPC server. The backup job which I started
manually vice scheduled begins copying files and consumes 130+GB of free space
on my BackupPC server before completing. I needed to manually stop the backup
job before running out of disk space on my BackupPC server. I can't imagine
that this is normal operation. I've tried searching for similar problems as
this in this mailing list archive and by googling without any luck.
My computer configuration is (prior to running the first backup):
<Client> < BackupPC server>
Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit v7.10 Ubuntu 32-bit v7.10 server
Hard Drive = SATA 160GB Hard Drive = PATA 160GB
12GB data used 16.6GB data used
128.7GB free 130.8GB free
140.7GB total 147.4GB total
100MB NIC 100MB NIC
note: the filesystem EXT3 is used on both computers
note: my best recollection is that I stopped the backup after 2 to 3 hours
time had passed and the job was still active.
I would think that 12GB of data would easily be copied onto a disk with 130GB
of free space however that is not what I observe in this case.
Has anyone else seen this problem before? Does anyone have any solutions of
suggestions? At this point I am considering rebuilding my BackupPC server on a
500GB drive to see if the full backup job would complete assuming that more
free disk space is needed for some reason.
TIA,
Mike
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