> Matthias Meyer wrote:
>> Thanks for your sympathy :-)
>> I would believe the filesystem should be ok in the meantime. e2fsck needs
>> to run 3 or 4 times and need in total more than 2 days. After this
>> lost+found contains approximately 10% of my data :-( No chance to
>> reconstruct all of them.
>> 
>> 1) So you would recommend:
>> mv /var/lib/backuppc/cpool /var/lib/backuppc/cpool.sav
>> mkdir /var/lib/backuppc/cpool
>> I would believe that the hardlinks
>> from /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<host>/<backup-number> than will point to
>> cpool.sav instead cpool?
>> The disadvantage is that up to now every file have to be created in the
>> new cpool. No one of the existing files (in cpool.sav) can be reused.
>> By deleting of old backups during the next month, the cpool.sav should be
>> empty and can be deleted than.
>> 
>> 2) I would believe that every backuped file will be checked against
>> cpool. Is it not identical than a new file will be created in cpool.
>> During the deletion of old backups also old, (maybee corrupt) files in
>> cpool will be deleted. So possible corrupt files in cpool will disappear
>> automaticly during the next month.
>> 
>> Which strategy would you prefer?
>> 
>> Thanks
> 
> In 1) I was a bit vague: I meant moving all data (to be used only if
> needed, including cpool) and making fresh backups altogether. And
> exactly that will make it effortless for you - the new pool is clean.
> 
> In 2) you are correct unless you are using checksum caching. To clean
> unused files you need nightly, and to use that you want a clean pool.
> 
> Go for 2) if there are few errors that you can correct yourself to keep
> BackupPC running smoothly with an unbroken line of backups.
> 
> However, 10 GB sounds like you'll save time and trouble by allowing
> backuppc to make new backups - if you can afford the bandwidth. At the
> same time you won't have to worry about many factors that could go wrong.
> 
> Regards,
> Johan
> 
ok.I wil give 2) a chance and will test it for at least one month.

Should I delete all directories in /var/lib/backuppc/cpool/?/?/?/* or would
BackupPC_nightly do this job?
Should I reactivate BackupPC_nightly?

Regards
Matthias
-- 
Don't Panic


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