On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:25:57AM +0000, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 08:25 +0100, Christian Völker wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I got an email from my backuppc host this night:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Yesterday 160 hosts were skipped because the file system containing
> > /var/lib/BackupPC/ was too full.  The threshold in the
> > configuration file is 97%, while yesterday the file system was
> > up to 96% full.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > So I'm wondering about two facts there:
> > 1. I don't have 160 hosts- where is this number coming from?
> > 2. is 97% lower than 96%?

In the past, I have puzzled over these same messages.


> The filesystem may have become less full after the backups failed to
> start but before the email was sent as the nightly tidying run will have
> taken place.

If so, it would be less confusing to simply report the disk consumption
at the time of the failure.

-S

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