On 03/03/2012 05:08 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
>

Disk has plenty of space left. It is possible the disk was unavailable 
at some point, however. Yet not starting a backup shouldn't corrupt the 
information on the previous backups. And I would think an unfinished 
backup would also not corrupt previous backup data?

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