Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC producing extremely large error log

2008-08-18 Thread Bernd Speiser
dan wrote: > I'm not entirely sure of the issue here but you could do something to > stop the big file from filling up the whole drive and possibly catch > some of the contents. > > make a new file that you will mount on loopback and direct the error log > there. > > dd if=/dev/null of=/logtmp

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC producing extremely large error log

2008-08-17 Thread dan
I'm not entirely sure of the issue here but you could do something to stop the big file from filling up the whole drive and possibly catch some of the contents. make a new file that you will mount on loopback and direct the error log there. dd if=/dev/null of=/logtmp.diskimage bs=1M count=1 seek=

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC producing extremely large error log

2008-08-17 Thread Bernd Speiser
Hi all, we have a BackupPC installation under openSUSE 10.3 using tar to backup a couple of Windows and Linux PCs. Most of the time, this works just fine. However, once in a while, in a non-reproducible fashion, BackupPC writes an extremely long error file - it fills up the entire free hard dis