Re: [BackupPC-users] What's using all this disk space?

[Robin L. P. <rlp...@di...>]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:32:23PM -0400, Timothy J Massey wrote:
> Robin Lee Powell <rlp...@di...> wrote on 10/04/2010
> 03:28:23 PM:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 03:25:03PM -0400, Timothy J Massey
> > wrote:
> > > Robin Lee Powell <rlp...@di...> wrote on
> > > 10/04/2010 03:15:29 PM:
> > > 
> > > > How do I find out which backups are using a lot of disk?
> > > > We'd like to see if there's a problem with our retention
> > > > policy, especially on database servers, but I've no insight
> > > > at all into where all this disk is *going*.
> > > > 
> > > > Anyone got a script for this?
> > > 
> > > I don't have a script for this, but if you look at the host
> > > page for each server, examine the "New Files" section.  This
> > > will tell you which backups are consuming a lot of space (i.e.
> > > aren't pooling well).
> > 
> > We have 200+ servers getting backed up on here.  :)
> 
> Well, then, you'll want to parse the pc/<hostname>/backups file.
> The 9th (New Files Count) and 10th (New Files Size) field (AFAICT)
> are what you're looking for.
> 
> Sorry, no script.

I've got one.  Attached.  Specialized for our environment, not
productionalized or anything, but it works.

-Robin

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