B. Alexander wrote: > Hi all, > > I shot myself in the foot, and need to pick your brains about how to > recover. My backup machine has a 500GB drive using LVM for my backup > partition. I managed to fill it up. Currently, backups are not running > (which makes me nervous), and the backuppc partition on this machine is > at: > > /dev/mapper/vg01-backuppc > 488367552 485798240 2569312 100% /media/backuppc > > I have a machine, my workstation (defiant), that I has a bunch of stuff on > it in /media/archive. The backup is about 250 GB before pooling and > compression. Well, I have been slowly migrating data from /media/archive > to another machine which now has a 1.5 TB drive. All well and good, except > that without thinking about backups, I nfs mounted the filesystem to which > I am migrating stuff from defiant. I mounted it under /media/archive, so > when the last full backup ran on defiant, it filled the filesystem on the > backup host. > > I got an email from the Backuppc Genie, and started clearing some old > backups. After (I assume) Backuppc_nightly ran, I am still at 100%. I > started digging in to see why the filesystem was still full. In the > /media/backuppc/pc/defiant directory, there were two large directories, > > # du -sh * > 219G 869 > 210G 944 > > However, BackupPC_delete only shows backup number 869:/media/backuppc/pc/defiant > > # BackupPC_delete -c defiant -l > BackupNumber 869 - full-Backup from 2010-01-23 > > and the web interface shows the same. Only 869. > > Can I delete the 944 directory without adverse effects? If not, what is > the best way to free up this drive space?
Try cat /media/backuppc/pc/defiant/backups If there is no backupp number 944 you can remove it. You have to remove /media/backuppc/pc/defiant/XferLOG.944 or /media/backuppc/pc/defiant/XferLOG.944.z too. > > Also, I have another 120GB of free space in another volume group. Is there > a way to integrate that into the backup filesystem? With all the hard > links, I wasn't sure how best to allocate the space. I use LVM too and I am be able to add and remove size from my backup volume. The hardlinks are no problem. > > /dev/mapper/vg00-archive > 156962116 32840 156929276 1% /media/archive > > Unfortunately, since I use LUKS encryption on the drives, spanning a VG > across two drives is contraindicated. (It decrypts the first drive, but > not the second, so the volume group can't open.) Can I still use the 150GB > on vg00-archive in /media/backuppc? But I didn't use LUKS encryption. So I can't say if that will work with resized volumes. ! You should test it ;-) ! br Matthias -- Don't Panic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ 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/