Cesar Voulgaris wrote at about 15:37:55 -0300 on Tuesday, December 2, 2008: > hi all, i have this problem. I'm backing up several pcs in compressed form. > The backups are scheduled and done ok, even the aged backups apears to be > removed in the pcs specific logs file, like this: > ..... > 2008-12-02 01:00:05 incr backup started back to 2008-11-30 01:00:01 (backup > #25) for directory /home > 2008-12-02 01:33:04 incr backup 27 complete, 174 files, 764599209 bytes, 0 > xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 0 other) > 2008-12-02 01:33:04 removing incr backup 20 > ..... > > The problem is that my disk is filling at a constant rate (my backups daily > dosn't change so much) and should bo somewhat constant. I'll realized that > the > cpool directory is not cleaning by some reason, the log: > > 2008-12-02 01:00:01 Running 2 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of 0..15) > 2008-12-02 01:00:01 Running BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127 (pid=30514) > 2008-12-02 01:00:01 Running BackupPC_nightly 128 255 (pid=30515) > 2008-12-02 01:00:01 Next wakeup is 2008-12-03 01:00:00 > 2008-12-02 01:00:04 Started incr backup on localhost (pid=30516, share=/) > 2008-12-02 01:00:44 Finished admin1 (BackupPC_nightly 128 255) > 2008-12-02 01:00:46 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail > 2008-12-02 01:01:22 Finished admin (BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127) > 2008-12-02 01:01:22 Pool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB > 2008-12-02 01:01:22 Pool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 max > links), 1 directories > 2008-12-02 01:01:22 Cpool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB > 2008-12-02 01:01:22 Cpool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 max > links), 4369 directories > .... > As you can see the cpool doesn't look to have deleted anything, even it says > it has 0 Gb. > > I did a fresh instalation of backuppc in debian, all data is in > /var/lib/backuppc and all permissions are ok (automatically set in the > install). The backuppc version is 3.0. I allready have a backuppc 2.6 version > in another machine, same data config, permissions, etc. working perfectly. > thanks in advance
I assume you have confirmed that there really are pool files in need of cleaning, say by doing: find <topdir>/cpool -type -f -links 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
