From: Sharuzzaman A. R. <sha...@gm...> - 2014-01-10 16:04:46
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Yes, if the external disk is missing (or NFS not mounted properly), the mount point will just point to your local disk, and BackupPC will fill your disk to the max. If you suddenly found out that your OS disk is full, that indicates something wrong with your mounting It happen to my customer who use 2nd disk for BackupPC data, and at one time the disk did not mount properly, and the 1st disk was filled to the max. Thanks. On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom < ch...@re...> wrote: > On 01/10 02:09 , Adam Hardy wrote: > > I have just started using this setup and I don't know what's going > > to happen. I assume when the drive isn't mounted, backuppc will > > complain but just try again later. > > Best you test that. :) > I don't know the details of how you have it set up, but one of the possible > (tho I think unlikely) failure modes is that BackupPC fills up your > filesystem and runs you out of space. (Depends on exactly where that device > is mounted - if BPC is expecting a certain directory tree is may in fact > fail to run, but I don't know how gracefully it fails). > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > Bac...@li... > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > -- Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan |