dan wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> --
> 
> alternatively you could use user quotas on the log directory and limit 
> backuppc to a small amount.

Thanks! All right, I will test these suggestions and then wait for the 
next occurence of our problem, which could take a couple of days, even 
weeks, since it happens rather irregularly.
I'll come back to the issue later, when I know more about the contents 
of the log file.

Bernd

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