Re: [BackupPC-users] [BackupPC] Cpool and pc quite are big according to size of backuped data and backup config

[Hervé R. <he...@pe...>]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Hervé Richard wrote:
>>
>> By the way I have a rotation between two hard drive every 2 weeks.
>> This done manually.
>> Localhost config.pl is stored on each hard drive including the 
>> backuppc dir as below:
>> backuppc/
>>                cpool/
>>                log/
>>                pc/
>>                pool/
>>                trash/
>>
>> I think there is bad influence on the way backuppc behave.
>
> That shouldn't cause any particular problem as long as the 
> backuppc_nightly jobs run.
>
>>>
>> When I execute ' find . -links 1 ' in the cpool directory I see a lot 
>> of files.
>> In my configuration, files are stored on a RAID volume mounted on a 
>> mount point in home directory.
>> In the Cpool directory I got directories from : 0 to f and same 
>> subdirs from 0 to f...
>> For example:
>> ls cpool -> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
>> and ls cpool/0/ -> same thing as above
>> ls cpool/0/0/ -> same thing
>> ls cpool/0/0/0/ -> gives me files with 34 hexa digit.
>>
>> When I check (with ls -la) files date some are more than 1 year older 
>> than the other (eg: 2006 and 2007)
>
> The age doesn't matter - files will remain as long as some copy of 
> that same content is still in a backup run under the pc directory.  
> However, when the last copy under the pc directory expires and is 
> removed, the link count on the cpool instance will go down to 1 and 
> the next run of backuppc_nightly should remove it.  I think I would 
> try stopping the backuppc service and running (as the backuppc user)
> BackupPC_Nightly 0 255
> to see if it releases some space or has some error.
After executing the command BackupPC_nightly 0 255 I couldn't see 
anything in output neither on display nor in log :-/
Is this command logging somewhere?

But here is a copu from log after a full backup job:

2008-03-28 03:30:00 Running 2 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of 
0..15)
2008-03-28 03:30:00 Running BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127 (pid=15319)
2008-03-28 03:30:00 Running BackupPC_nightly 128 255 (pid=15320)
2008-03-28 03:30:00 Next wakeup is 2008-03-29 03:30:00
2008-03-28 03:30:01 Finished  admin1  (BackupPC_nightly 128 255)
2008-03-28 03:30:01 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail
2008-03-28 03:30:01 Finished  admin  (BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127)
2008-03-28 03:30:01 Pool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB
2008-03-28 03:30:01 Pool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 
max link
s), 1 directories
2008-03-28 03:30:01 Cpool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB
2008-03-28 03:30:01 Cpool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 
max lin
ks), 4369 directories
2008-03-28 03:30:02 Started full backup on localhost (pid=15323, 
share=/.....path to share)

Cheers,

Hervé