On 03/03/2012 05:08 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Erik Shreve<li...@erikshreve.com> wrote: >> I got a notice this morning that none of my machines had ever been >> backed up. It looks like backups stopped earlier this week and BackupPC >> could no longer see any of the older backups. However, checking the >> TopDir location showed plenty of files. >> >> I saw another post that suggested running BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary >> for the hosts. I did this and via the web interface I can now see the >> previous backups. However, when browsing those backups, if I click on a >> file I get a 0 byte file. >> >> >> Any tips on how to >> A) Verify the file data is actually still on the disk. >> B) Fix the links so that the file data is downloaded. >> C) Troubleshoot what happened to blow away the backups in the first place > > Could you have run out of disk space? Backuppc won't start a backup > if your disk is over 95% (configurable) full, but depending on the > circumstances that might not have left enough room for it to complete. >
Disk has plenty of space left. It is possible the disk was unavailable at some point, however. Yet not starting a backup shouldn't corrupt the information on the previous backups. And I would think an unfinished backup would also not corrupt previous backup data? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ 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/
