On 1/21/2010 11:07 AM, Don Krause wrote:
>
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> On 1/21/2010 10:08 AM, Don Krause wrote:
>>> 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 every backup, and had preformed a full 
>>> against all hosts. That full is labeled 0.
>>>
>>> That made it a great time to upgrade, so I rm'ed the backuppc data 
>>> directories, installed 3.1.0, restarted the backups.. But the problem 
>>> persists..
>>>
>>> Every night since, it removes the last evenings backup, and does a new 
>>> full, still labeled 0.
>>>
>>> Any ideas where to start looking?
>>
>> Did you do an fsck on the filesystem holding the backups?  I doubt if
>> this is related to backuppc itself.
>
> 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, they pass both diff and md5 against their backups.
>
> FWIW, it's running SLES 10, on an HP385 with 6x300G SCSI, RAID 5, ext3.

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

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