maybe add a pre_dump command to clear such things out :) im glad you solved
it, good luck
On Jan 2, 2008 12:23 PM, Rob Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok so i found the culprit, i think... in one websites tmp dir i found
> 1.9million php sess_ files!!
> i guess i will delete this dir and try to find out what causes this....
>
> thanks to all who answered me anyways....
> :)
>
> Have a good one
>
> Rob Morin
> Dido Internet Inc.
> Montreal,Canadahttp://www.dido.ca
> 514-990-4444
>
>
>
> Rob Morin wrote:
>
> I guess i worded my email in a weird way.....Sorry.. :) I understand
> that file quantity can increase, but i also meant to ask that a full back up
> is just that, a full backup , so it backs up all the files, so what i was
> wondering is why each week, the files are increasing so much??? Since its a
> virtual hosting server, its hard to tell since i have no history on how big
> or how many files were in certain dirs weeks ago.... I am nervous to let it
> run its next full backup as twice it killed the server... would a recursive
> dir loop be bad for backuppc? or does it ignore that stuff... is ther any
> magic command that i can use to detect a directory loop, i am on Debian
> Etch....
>
> here is my localhost conf file...
>
> # Local server backup of / as user backuppc
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';
> $Conf{TarShareName} = ['/'];
> #$Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/bin/tarCreate -v -f - -C
> $shareName+ --totals';
> $Conf{TarClientCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sudo $tarPath'
> . ' -c -v -f - -C $shareName --totals';
> $Conf{TarClientRestoreCmd} = '/usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/sudo $tarPath
> -x -p --numeric-owner --same-owner'
> . ' -v -f - -C $shareName+';
> $Conf{TarFullArgs} = '$fileList';
> $Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList';
> $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/data', '/tmp', '/root/.cpan', '/var/log',
> '/var/downloads', '/media', '/mnt', '/proc', '/var/lib/backuppc', '/sys',
> '/var/oldjoe', '/var/run'];
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rob Morin
> Dido Internet Inc.
> Montreal,Canadahttp://www.dido.ca
> 514-990-4444
>
>
>
> Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
>
> Rob Morin wrote:
>
>
>
> SO i checked out my log files for full backups and i see this....
>
> Does this simply mean its backing up more and more files each
> time.... i
> mean a full backup is ALL files right? so with that, does that mean
> somehow i am having more and more files on the server?
>
>
> Of course it's possible that the number of files is increasing, but
> are you backing up localhost without excluding the BackupPC pool? In
> that case you are recursively backing up all of your files...
>
> Nils Breunese.
>
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