Fernando Laudares Camargos wrote:
>
>> Fernando Laudares Camargos wrote:
>>>     * Why BackupPC_tarPCCopy sometimes produces big tar files ? *
>> Are you doing something to control the timing of your copies compared to 
>> the changes backuppc would be making?  The files in cpool need to be 
>> exactly in sync with the directory snapshots made by BackupPC_tarPCCopy.
> 
> I'm doing two things (altough I'm not sure that answer your question 
> correctly):
> 
> 1) rsync of cpool without --delete (so, cpool will keep growing, no files 
> will ever be deleted. I assume that's fine apart from the fact it will take 
> more disk space).

BackupPC_nightly may rename chains of hash collisions in cpool as part of its 
cleanup.  If such a rename occurs between the rsync runs and the 
BackupPC_tarPCCopy or restore, you'll end up with links to the wrong files.


-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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