Re: [BackupPC-users] Sorry - another bug?

[Les M. <le...@fu...>]

On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 03:17, Nick Knight wrote:
> =20
> The web tool seems to get it self in a state where it won=E2=80=99t per=
form
> any more backups, nothing is running, you select either a full or
> incremental backup, you get the message =E2=80=9Creply from server was =
ok=E2=80=9D
> then when you go back to the pc summary page nothing has happened. It
> requires a restart of the server to get going again.
>=20

Once a day, backuppc does a nighly cleanup run where it goes
through the pooled files and deletes any that no longer have
links into the active backups. This can take a very long
time, depending on your disk speed and filesystem type. During
this time no other operations are started.  The ones you try
to start with the web interface are queued and would be run
after the cleanup finished if you don't restart.  You'll probably
notice that it catches up over the weekend.

If you are on Linux, switching to ReiserFS will help.  Also,
be sure you exclude the backup directory in
/etc/updatedb.conf so it isn't trying to index all of these
files in your 'locate' database at the same time the cleanup
runs.

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  Les Mikesell
   le...@fu...