On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:20:17AM +0200, David wrote: > Hi list. > > Until recently I was using rdiff-backup for backing up our servers. > But after a certain point, the rdiff-backup process would take days, > use up huge amounts of CPU and RAM, and the debug logs were very > opaque. And the rdiff-backup mailing lists weren't very helpful > either. > > So, for servers where that's a problem, I changed over to a hardlink > snapshot-based aproach. > > That's been working fine for the past few weeks. But now, the backup > server is running out of harddrive space and we need to check which > backup histories is taking up the most space, so we can prune the > oldest week or two from them. > You might want to check out BackupPC. It uses hardlinks and compression. It's got a web-based GUI which makes it pretty easy to find statistics on disk space used, on a per-server basis.
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