Cesar Voulgaris wrote at about 15:37:55 -0300 on Tuesday, December 2, 2008:
> hi all, i have this problem. I'm backing up several pcs in compressed form.
> The backups are scheduled and done ok, even the aged backups apears to be
> removed in the pcs specific logs file, like this:
> .....
> 2008-12-02 01:00:05 incr backup started back to 2008-11-30 01:00:01 (backup
> #25) for directory /home
> 2008-12-02 01:33:04 incr backup 27 complete, 174 files, 764599209 bytes, 0
> xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 0 other)
> 2008-12-02 01:33:04 removing incr backup 20
> .....
>
> The problem is that my disk is filling at a constant rate (my backups daily
> dosn't change so much) and should bo somewhat constant. I'll realized that
> the
> cpool directory is not cleaning by some reason, the log:
>
> 2008-12-02 01:00:01 Running 2 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of 0..15)
> 2008-12-02 01:00:01 Running BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127 (pid=30514)
> 2008-12-02 01:00:01 Running BackupPC_nightly 128 255 (pid=30515)
> 2008-12-02 01:00:01 Next wakeup is 2008-12-03 01:00:00
> 2008-12-02 01:00:04 Started incr backup on localhost (pid=30516, share=/)
> 2008-12-02 01:00:44 Finished admin1 (BackupPC_nightly 128 255)
> 2008-12-02 01:00:46 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail
> 2008-12-02 01:01:22 Finished admin (BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127)
> 2008-12-02 01:01:22 Pool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB
> 2008-12-02 01:01:22 Pool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 max
> links), 1 directories
> 2008-12-02 01:01:22 Cpool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB
> 2008-12-02 01:01:22 Cpool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 max
> links), 4369 directories
> ....
> As you can see the cpool doesn't look to have deleted anything, even it says
> it has 0 Gb.
>
> I did a fresh instalation of backuppc in debian, all data is in
> /var/lib/backuppc and all permissions are ok (automatically set in the
> install). The backuppc version is 3.0. I allready have a backuppc 2.6 version
> in another machine, same data config, permissions, etc. working perfectly.
> thanks in advance
I assume you have confirmed that there really are pool files in need
of cleaning, say by doing:
find <topdir>/cpool -type -f -links 1
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