On 10/28/10 11:19 PM, gregwm wrote:
> umm,
> Cpool nightly clean removed 190 files from where??
>
> the mobo died on 10/14, a new server was purchased, complete with new
> discs.  the orig server primary volume was also installed, but not the
> original server backuppc volume.  on 10/28 i created a fresh empty
> backuppc volume, tried starting backuppc but hadn't created the
> backuppcdata directory, created that and restarted but hadn't given
> ownership of backuppcdata to backuppc, did that and restarted, and
> finally it's happily rebuilding the backup volume.
>
> but wait, each time backuppc ran with an EMPTY backup volume, it
> claims to have deleted files from Cpool!  eh?  just exactly what did
> it delete really, from where?
>
> it sounds about right that the Cpool was 73.32GB on 10/13.  but the
> log's claim that Cpool is 64.84GB on 10/28 makes no sense.  the volume
> is fresh and empty.  yet the next couple runs claim that Cpool nightly
> clean removed a similar but slightly fewer number of files each time,
> and each run claims Cpool is slightly smaller than the last.  like
> there's a shadow copy of Cpool somewhere?  umm, i sincerely doubt
> that...  so, what's going on here?
>
> my guess:  i have $Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 8;  which presumably
> means only 1/8 of the pool is traversed each night.  i'm guessing the
> numbers reported for Cpool are averaged out over the last 8 runs.
> weak, if so.  i mean really, claiming it removed 190 files.

No, it should mean that at any time you have 7/8 of the pool that hasn't been 
cleaned.

> i mean, i'm still rather worried it really did remove 190 files, and
> then 149 files, and then 106 more.  i mean, do i need to have my
> client go get that original backup volume back from offsite storage,
> spin it up, and compare everything to make sure something important
> hasn't been deleted?  that would be a major annoyance...
>
> doc/BackupPC.pod says "This documentation describes BackupPC version
> 3.0.0beta1", so presumably that's the version.
>
> /e4/v/h/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat LOG.2.z
> /e4/v/h/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_zcat LOG.1.z
> denied at /v/h/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_dump line 193
> 2010-10-28 17:15:11  admin : Can't read /bc/backuppcdata/pc: No such
> file or directory at /v/h/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail line 165.

Why are these paths different?

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