On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Erik Shreve <lists AT erikshreve DOT com> wrote:
> I got a notice this morning that none of my machines had ever been
> backed up. It looks like backups stopped earlier this week and BackupPC
> could no longer see any of the older backups. However, checking the
> TopDir location showed plenty of files.
>
> I saw another post that suggested running BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary
> for the hosts. I did this and via the web interface I can now see the
> previous backups. However, when browsing those backups, if I click on a
> file I get a 0 byte file.
>
>
> Any tips on how to
> A) Verify the file data is actually still on the disk.
> B) Fix the links so that the file data is downloaded.
> C) Troubleshoot what happened to blow away the backups in the first place


Could you have run out of disk space?   Backuppc won't start a backup
if your disk is over 95% (configurable) full, but depending on the
circumstances that might not have left enough room for it to complete.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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