Pete McEvoy wrote: > I had read through the docs, checked the FAQ etc, I wouldnt go as far as > saying I'm 100% au fait with whats going on, but I do seem to have what > I would consider redundant disk images here: > > /backup/selene# du -csh 2* > 29G 20070227 > 29G 20070228 > 29G 20070301 > 20K 20070302 > 20K 20070303 > 20K 20070304 > 36K 20070305 > 86G total > > Using those arguments to du does seem to have given me an alterntive > figure for last nights backup, another change since 9am this morning is > I've went from 0% free on the partition to 26 gig free, I think the > backup hadnt quite finished at that time. > > I backup another host to /backup/helios/ , and the 'problem' is > replicated there. > > /backup/helios# du -csh 2* > 23G 20070226 > 23G 20070227 > 23G 20070228 > 23G 20070301 > 18M 20070302 > 20M 20070303 > 21M 20070304 > 31M 20070305 > > The disk usage over the past few days seems fine, should I just delete > the problem images? Is there any way I can investigate what caused this? > A cursory glance at the files under tree/ or the index/log/summary files > doesnt reveal anything (to me)
If you look at specific files within the tree with ls -l, you can see the number of hard links. Here's an example from within one of my backup trees: -rw-r--r-- 3 dhoworth users 22478124 Jan 2 13:10 tmp.log.old The number 3 is the number of hard links to this file. I suspect you'll find the number 5 in your March backups and the number 1 in your Feb backups. If so, something wasn't working right, but is now! If so, then just deleting the unwanted images is safe to do. If you want to dig into it, rsync can be a bit fickle. Did you change anything in the conf files or the way you mount filesystems etc? You could keep the log files etc (i.e. everything not under the tree directory) for further investigation. Personally, I'd just be grateful it's working now and get on with life :) Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
