Yes, your right. It does appear that it's running the fsck on every exisiting backup for the given host.
David On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Jimmy <mupper...@gmail.com> wrote: > David, > > No, the fsck / delete actions aren't mentioned in the log. In the log I > can only see: > > full|incr backup started for share xxxxx > full|incr backup NNN complete, xxxxxx files, yyyyy bytes > > > Perhaps yours does the fsck too, but just very quickly so it may not be > noticeable. Try running a backup manually, either full/incremental then > watch the "Status" page. During the fsck, the "Host Summary" page will say > "Backup in progress" whilst the "Status" page shows the actual task being > performed, i.e. backing up, fsck, delete, etc. It would be best to try this > on a host that has lots of files (1 million files+) and when you have more > than 5 backups. > > Regards, > Jimmy > > 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/ >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > -- David Cramblett
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