This may sound fatuous but I am serious. Have you considered installing
more disk(s)?
Sometimes throwing hardware rather than liveware at a problem is more
cost-effective. The former gets ever cheaper whereas the latter is ever
more expensive.
I doubled the size of my pool over the last year by replacing each
element of the RAID array in turn, thereby maintaining continuous service.
Paul
On 14/10/2023 21:43, marki wrote:
Hello,
I'm having a hard time here excluding stuff starting with the next
backup.
The problem is the disk containing the pools is not large enough to
host more full backups.
But we don't want to touch our retention policy for now, so we are
trying to exclude some things starting now.
But it's not working, details below:
An example/lab:
Let's say we add /path/to/exclusion to the exclusion list.
In this example 2845 is the last full, and I'm trying to do another
full which is going to be 2846.
However 2846 seems to be populated with the content from 2845
(including the stuff I have excluded).
It looks like it's first copying all the stuff from 2845 (even the
excluded path) and then later tries to remove it again from 2846.
Which is also taking forever in the original example as it's a
directory tree with millions of files.
Also in the original example the disk isn't large enough, so we're not
even making it to that stage.
How do I actually exclude a path from the next backup, such that it is
not even temporarily created?
I.e. such that the disk doesn't fill up AND such that it is fast.
Thanks,
Marki
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