You are correct – I changed some defaults – that one to ‘8’. So if I deleted that host 7 days ago, I can expect the pool to be gone in a day or two. I’ll be patient. Thank you Craig!
From: Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 20:52 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support <[email protected]> Cc: Craig Barratt <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] deleted backups then host and pc folder yet data remains in pool What is your setting for $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod}? The default is 1, but if it's set to something larger then it will take that number of days/nights for the entire pool to be traversed. It does appear that some of the files are getting deleted - yesterday afternoon it deleted 242189 files (although the total size wasn't very large), and 2149846 remain. That could be reasonable after 6 days with $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} set to 16. Craig On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 1:21 PM Mike Hughes <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: A host was created to duplicate the cpool from another BackupPC server. It was set to skip compression and successfully filled the uncompressed pool with ~300GB of data. On the advice of others, I decided to use rsync in a cronjob instead, so my intent was to delete this host and its data. First I went into the host's backup summary and clicked "Delete" for each of the four backups that were listed. Then I followed the documentation under "Other installation topics - Removing a client" where it said to: "remove its entry in the conf/hosts file, and then delete the /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/$host directory." The data still resides in the uncompressed pool - this is six days after I performed the above actions: * Uncompressed pool: o Pool is 306.65GiB comprising 2149846 files and 16512 directories (as of 10/21 13:06), o Pool hashing gives 0 repeated files with longest chain 0, o Nightly cleanup removed 242189 files of size 0.94GiB (around 10/21 13:06), * Compressed pool: o Pool is 141.48GiB comprising 1570628 files and 16512 directories (as of 10/21 13:06), o Pool hashing gives 0 repeated files with longest chain 0, o Nightly cleanup removed 4949 files of size 26.05GiB (around 10/21 13:06), * Pool file system was recently at 46% (10/22 08:00), today's max is 46% (10/21 13:00) and yesterday's max was 46%. I'm concerned I may have created a race-condition when I asked the system to delete the individual backups then removed the client and pc folders before it could complete. This was the only host set to not use compression and I believe the full 306GB in pool is solely for this host. Is it safe to delete the contents of pool? _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
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