11:20am, Les Mikesell wrote: > Mike Mrozek wrote: >> 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. >> > > You probably have a large sparse file on the client that isn't handled > very well by the copy mechanism. On unix filesystems you can seek past > the end of a file and write, creating a file that appears to be very > long but without using the intermediate space where nothing has been > written. In particular, many 64-bit linux versions have a > /var/log/lastlog file that appears to be 1.2 terabytes in size as an > artifact of indexing it by uid numbers and using -1 for the nfsnobody > id. It's generally not important to back this file up, so if that is > the problem you can just exclude it. >
Another possibility is that you have remote mounts that are being backed up (--one-file-system for rsync is your friend), or some misconfiguration in your config file. If you don't locate any large sparse files, and you don't have any remote mounts, send us the *relevant* parts of your config file(s), and we'll see if there's anything messed up there. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
