We've been happily running BackupPC for a couple years now at a couple different sites. One site, running 3.0 was behaving perfectly, until Monday night, when much to my surprise, it had deleted ever
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:50:46 -0600
Did you do an fsck on the filesystem holding the backups? I doubt if this is related to backuppc itself. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference
fsck comes back clean. even when run forced. I doubt this is a backuppc problem, I'm just at a loss where to look. This worked fine on this box for 18months +, there's no changes to the config files,
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:23:25 -0600
Is it just a problem with the file containing the list of backups or do the numbered backup directories under the pc/hostname/ directory go away too? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com -- T
Author: Craig Barratt <cbarratt AT users.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:33:32 -0800
Is there some way that $Conf{FullKeepCnt} got set to 0? Please check both the main and per-host config files. Craig -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's
Nope, it set to: $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [ 4, 0, 4, 0, 0, 2 ]; -- Don Krause -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating
The numbered directories are gone. I only have "0" from last nights backup, which is 0.3 days old, and it replaced the one from the day before.. -- Don Krause -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA C
Just an update, there are no errors in the logs, and a forced fsck on the file system is clean.. llupbt2:~ # fsck.ext3 -f /dev/cciss/c0d0p6 e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks,
Author: Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:44:34 +0100
Please post the main logfile of BackupPC and a logfile of one affected host - spanning at least 2 days of continuous operation. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.
Author: Craig Barratt <cbarratt AT users.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:30:09 -0800
2005-02-06 11:20:55 removing old full backup 0 If not, then it appears something other than BackupPC is removing or trashing the files. If so, then BackupPC is removing the backups, and the only expl
Sure.. The affected hosts (all of them on this installation.) only appear to have a very short log file for the previous night. It's almost as if the log file is being overwritten nightly as well.. A
Author: Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:38:02 +0100
Hi Don, Please provide the logfiles hosts as well - there is a separate logfile for each host available via web interface... And this logfile is rotated, but it shouldn't start anew each day. (I didn
They were in the same email, below the config. This is a typical client log file.. (This would be calib) llupbt2:/export/facility/BackupPC/pc/calib # cat LOG.012010 2010-01-21 02:00:18 full backup st
i've trimmed most of your included output for my reply, but before 2AM incrementals are running, but after 2 AM only fulls. Is something happening to your disk at 2? Can you halt BackupPC for one day
Check in particular the $topdir/pc directory after 2AM Tony -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities
Author: Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:06:08 +0100
Hi Don, My bets are on "something or someone is wiping your directories". Try disabling backups for this night, then see what it looks like the next day. I suppose, the directories will look pretty v
I'll try that. It's very strange... Thanks Much! -- Don Krause -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunit
and touch a file in there with the current date/time while you're at it. On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de> wrote: -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA C
Will do.. -- Don Krause Head Systems Geek, Waver of Deceased Chickens. Optivus Proton Therapy, Inc. P.O. Box 608 Loma Linda, California 92354 909.799.8327 Tel 909.799.8366 Fax dkrause AT optivus DOT