I'm not certain, but I don't think my centos based v4 system is doing this. Do the fsck show in the log?
I will investigate when I get back to my computer. David Sent from my mobile device David Cramblett On Sep 21, 2015 10:48 AM, "Jimmy" <mupper...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that BackupPC v4 runs fsck each time it does a backup, both incr > or full. After an actual backup, it would run fsck on all the backups that > it has for the host. > > For example, host "pc1" has backup #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, and the new > backup created #8. After BackupPC created backup #8, it would run fsck on > #1, then on to #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8 before it goes to "idle". > > And when it runs again the next time to create backup #9, it would then > run fsck all over again for all the backups (#1 - #9). > > This makes each backup run for every host to take a very long time to > finish and sometimes it takes longer than 24 hours to complete the whole > fsck cycle against all the backups. > > As a result, the backup lags behind and instead of a daily backup, I get > backups that have gaps, be it a 1 day gap or 2+ day gap. > > This is an issue for computers with a large number of files + a big total > size of data. > > Is this a normal behaviour? Is there something that can be done to improve > this situation so that I have no gaps in my backups? > > Regards, > Jimmy > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > >
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