On 01/02/17 07:45, Mike Dresser wrote: > One thing I've noticed on backuppc 4.0.0alpha3 is that if an rsyncd > backup is interrupted(server crash, someone rebooted the server, etc), > it leaves behind a rsyncTmp.pid.y.z file in the main host directory, > like ./hostname/309/rsyncTmp.8869.0.4 > > On the next backup, this file gets copied to 310, but never gets > deleted. If you back up a 200gb file and it fails, and then do another > 10 incrementals you'll now have 2 TB of disk space used that will never > come back since each new backup copies the old backup as a starting > point. If a future backup fails, you'll now have multiple rsyncTMP files. > > I had a server with 22TB disk space that had an extra 16 TB of files > like this... Couldn't figure out why my pool stats were nothing like > what the disk actually had. > > Suggestion would be to have the copy command that runs when a backup is > started delete any leftover files that are named like that. >
Thank you, this is so true... I just found: client 1: 20 x 1125MB client 2: 38 x 8639MB client 3: 20 x 3565MB client 4: 19 x 8639MB client 5: 97 x 100MB client 6: 42 x 34MB client 7: 7 x 4101MB client 8: 73 x 124MB Total: 635GB Ouch..... Considering my backup server is reasonably stable, uptime is currently 99 days... PS, would this work better is the rsyncTmp filename was pre-determined based on the file being transferred? This could also lead to some starting point for continuing a partially transferred file. eg, a 4GB file is backed up, and is modified daily. One day, there are a lot of changes, or some other network issue that interrupts the backup. Why not continue the transfer the next day instead of starting from the beginning. The argument that it will corrupt the backup is moot, since the tmp file is never actually "part" of the backup files. Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ 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/
