From: <bac...@ko...> - 2014-01-10 17:58:22
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Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote at about 00:04:07 +0800 on Saturday, January 11, 2014: > 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. I have always worried that this could happen -- especially since I have used both NFS-mounted volumes and USB-disks which could all fail to mount. As a preventive patch, I added code to BackupPC that checks for the presence of the pc, pool, and cpool directories. Such code is trivial to add and I have long thought that such code should be added to make sure that BackupPC is saving it's gigabytes and terabytes in the right volume. |