Re: [BackupPC-users] "disk too full"

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Paul Fox writes:

> my backup pool disk is 96% full, and backuppc has stopped doing
> backups.  i have no problem with that.
>=20
> i don't look at the PC status page every day, and only found out
> that things were amiss when i got one of the "your machine hasn't
> been backed up for a week" messages.  it turns out that none of
> my machines have been backed up in that time.
>=20
> what bothers me is that it never told me.  there's no notice on
> the status page that the disk is "too full", and no mail was sent
> when the disk filled up.  i'd think a message to the effect of
> "your PC or laptop was not backed up because there is not enough
> space left on the backup server" would be entirely appropriate.

Looks like you haven't setup the admin email, $Conf{EMailAdminUserName}.

If any hosts are skipped due to the disk being too full the admin
address will get a nightly email.

Craig