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Re: [BackupPC-users] Uncompressed pool & compressed pool size with compresslevel 3

2010-02-05 09:21:28
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Uncompressed pool & compressed pool size with compresslevel 3
From: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:19:12 +1100
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Koen Linders wrote:
>> 1) Shouldn't the uncompressed pool be empty? I guess it's safe to
>> actually delete all data in the pool dir? But why does Nightly
>> cleanup removes things on Etch server at night?
>>
>> 2) And since the upgrade to 3.1. the 2 graphs for pools aren't
>> showing (https://192.168.1.5/backuppc/index.cgi?image=4)
>> (https://192.168.1.5/backuppc/index.cgi?image=52)
>
> 1) If compression is longer than the time required to keep backups.
> Is it safe to delete the contents of the pool folder? (47GB
> server1, 123 GB server2)
No.
In more detail:
A file bavked up before compression was enabled which has always
existed in at least one backup will never be moved from the pool to
the cpool. Thus, some files in the pool are still in use (you should
see the link count of those files is >1

Regards,
Adam
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