I'm not entirely sure of the issue here but you could do something to stop the big file from filling up the whole drive and possibly catch some of the contents.
make a new file that you will mount on loopback and direct the error log there.
dd if=/dev/null of=/logtmp.diskimage bs=1M count=1 seek=100
that will make a 100MB file
then
sudo mkfs.ext3 /logtmp.diskimage
sudo mkdir /mnt/tmplog
sudo mount -o loop /logtmp.diskimage /mnt/tmplog/
adjust the entry in /etc/backuppc/config.pl that is
$Conf{LogDir} = '';
change it to
$Conf{LogDir} = '/mnt/tmplog/';
restart backuppc
sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc restart
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alternatively you could use user quotas on the log directory and limit backuppc to a small amount.
now the log file cannot overrun the disk, just fill that partition. since it wont fill up the disk and lock the system, you should be able to look at the file and see what the error is.
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Bernd Speiser
<bernd.speiser AT t-online DOT de> wrote:
Hi all,
we have a BackupPC installation under openSUSE 10.3 using tar to backup
a couple of Windows and Linux PCs.
Most of the time, this works just fine. However, once in a while, in a
non-reproducible fashion, BackupPC writes an extremely long error file -
it fills up the entire free hard disk space and of course, the system
becomes unusable after this occurs. I have to delete the error log and
restart the machine on which BackupPC resides. Consequently, I can not
even look at the error log to find out what happened.
What can I do to avoid this condition - or, what can I test to find out
the reason for this behavior?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards
Bernd
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