On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Mark Rosedale <mrosed...@vivox.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> So I have a backuppc installation. I started running low on diskspace so I 
> aged out a whole set of full's. The problem is that I really didn't get that 
> much space back and I traced the issue down to the trashClean proc taking a 
> very long time to recover the space. So basically what has been happening is 
> I keep filling up on space on my backups and the trashClean proc isn't 
> keeping up.
>
> What I've done now is stop my backups and run trashClean by hand. I've been 
> slowly gaining back space, but it is very slow. Is there anything I can do to 
> speed this process up?

It is really BackupPC_nightly that frees up the space when all the
links to a pool file have been deleted.

It may be configured to only look at part of the pool on each run.
With the backuppc service stopped you can run it with arguments '0
255' to do it all in one pass (it may still take a long time...).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikes...@gmail.com

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