Will do..
On Jan 21, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Shawn Perry wrote:
> 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:
>> Hi Don,
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:49:28PM -0800, Don Krause wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Craig Barratt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Don writes:
>>>>
>>>>> 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..
>>>>
>>>> Please look in the host's LOG file. Do you see messages like:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>> explanation I can think of is the $Conf{FullKeepCnt} ends
>>>> up being 0. Could you have a syntax error in your main or
>>>> per-PC config.pl files? Eg: try running this:
>>>>
>>>> perl PATH_TO_MAIN_CONFIG/config.pl
>>>> perl PATH_TO_PER_HOST_CONFIG/config.pl
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> llupbt2:/export/facility/BackupPC/pc/calib # perl /etc/BackupPC/config.pl
>>> llupbt2:/export/facility/BackupPC/pc/calib # perl /etc/BackupPC/pc/calib.pl
>>> llupbt2:/export/facility/BackupPC/pc/calib #
>>>
>>> No instances of "removing" in the log files either..
>>>
>>> Last nights log is interesting in that at 1am it claims to be starting
>>> incremental backups..
>>>
>>> 2010-01-21 01:00:01 Started incr backup on g2disun (pid=31638, share=/)
>>> 2010-01-21 01:00:01 Started incr backup on gantry3 (pid=31639, share=/)
>>> 2010-01-21 01:00:01 Started incr backup on delta (pid=31643, share=/)
>>> 2010-01-21 01:00:04 Started incr backup on gantry2 (pid=31675, share=/)
>>> 2010-01-21 01:00:09 Started incr backup on gantry3 (pid=31639, share=/usr)
>>> 2010-01-21 01:00:14 Started incr backup on gantry2 (pid=31675, share=/usr)
>>> 2010-01-21 01:00:22 Started incr backup on delta (pid=31643, share=/usr)
>>> 2010-01-21 01:00:48 Started incr backup on gantry3 (pid=31639, share=/var)
>>> 2010-01-21 01:00:48 Started incr backup on delta (pid=31643, share=/export)
>>> 2010-01-21 01:00:53 Started incr backup on gantry2 (pid=31675, share=/var)
>>>
>>> Then, 2 hours later..
>>>
>>> 2010-01-21 03:51:12 Started full backup on gantry2 (pid=489, share=/)
>>> 2010-01-21 03:52:19 Started full backup on gantry2 (pid=489, share=/usr)
>>> 2010-01-21 03:57:04 Finished crabs (BackupPC_link crabs)
>>> 2010-01-21 03:58:15 Started full backup on gantry3 (pid=452,
>>> share=/export/switc
>>> hyard)
>>> 2010-01-21 04:00:00 Next wakeup is 2010-01-21 05:00:00
>>> 2010-01-21 04:04:54 Started full backup on gantry3 (pid=452,
>>> share=/export/ingre
>>> s_back)
>>> 2010-01-21 04:04:58 Finished full backup on gantry3
>>> 2010-01-21 04:04:58 Running BackupPC_link gantry3 (pid=569)
>>> 2010-01-21 04:04:59 Started full backup on ebl-recovery (pid=571, share=/)
>>> 2010-01-21 04:05:04 Finished gantry3 (BackupPC_link gantry3)
>>> 2010-01-21 04:05:06 Backup failed on ebl-recovery (Unable to read 4 bytes)
>>> 2010-01-21 04:05:09 Started full backup on g1imgreg (pid=579, share=/)
>>> 2010-01-21 04:11:13 Started full backup on gantry2 (pid=489, share=/var)
>>> 2010-01-21 04:12:07 Started full backup on gantry2 (pid=489,
>>> share=/export/gantr
>>> y2)
>>
>> 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 virgin.
>>
>> Maybe run a cronjob which does an
>> ls -l /export/facility/BackupPC/pc/calib > /tmp/watchit.`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`
>> every minute just to get an idea what's going on.
>>
>> Tino.
>>
>> --
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