On May 24, 2010, at 12:27 , Chris Dennis wrote:
> On 22/05/10 11:44, Chris Dennis wrote:
>> Hello BackupPC people
>>
>> I've been running BackupPC for a few years, backing up assorted
>> machines
>> on my home network.
>>
>> Recently I've noticed that it no longer reports any "New Files" in
>> the
>> File Size/Count Reuse Summary.
>>
>> Here's a typical table (edited, removing the Totals columns, to
>> make it
>> fit):
>>
>> Existing Files New Files
>> Backup# Type #Files Size/MB #Files Size/MB
>> 593 full 825204 236759.2 1469 953.7
>> 618 full 825674 233138.7 3654 1131.9
>> 645 full 781402 233970.1 0.0
>> 672 full 795100 246194.7 0.0
>> 680 full 797542 240768.9 0.0
>> 685 full 797997 249227.5 0.0
>> 692 full 521799 37079.7 0.0
>> 693 incr 60955 783.8 0.0
>> 694 incr 61181 784.2 0.0
>> 695 incr 60683 801.1 0.0
>> 696 incr 65160 821.8 0.0
>> 697 incr 65168 821.8 0.0
>> 698 incr 65254 822.4 0.0
>>
>> Backup 618 is dated 9 Feb 2010, no. 645 is dated 9 March 2010. Did
>> something change between those two dates?
>
> I eventually realised that there was an error in my setup.
>
> My BackupPC database is on /media/backuppc (on an external hard
> drive),
> and there is a symbolic link from /var/lib/backuppc to /media/
> backuppc.
> Or rather there should be -- probably on a recent update, the link at
> /var/lib/backuppc got replaced by an empty directory.
>
> Having corrected that, the "New Files" listings have all magically
> reappeared.
>
> Which is fair enough, but it's weird that nearly all of BackupPC knew
> where my database was while a few bits, such as the New Items
> statistics, were looking at an empty folder.
>
> Hopefully this being in the archive will help someone else in the
> future.
>
> cheers
>
> Chris
>
I had this problem too. And it was also causing my backups to take a
_really_ long time... I couldn't quite get the symlink to make it
work, so I ended up just mounting the disk where my backups go into /
var/lib/backuppc and all was well.
Peter
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