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Re: [BackupPC-users] Disk space used far higher than reported pool size

2013-10-29 18:09:08
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Disk space used far higher than reported pool size
From: <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:07:27 -0400
Les Mikesell wrote at about 16:51:12 -0500 on Tuesday, October 29, 2013:
 > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT 
 > com> wrote:
 > >
 > >
 > > Check lost+found and trash while you're at it and see what's in there.  
 > > They should both be empty.
 > >
 > > I'm with Jeff:  I think that you have multiple PC trees that are not part 
 > > of the pool.  How you managed that I'm not sure.  But you need to find 
 > > those files and clean them up.  Start with Jeff's command and go from 
 > > there.
 > 
 > This could happen if the backups were originally on a different
 > filesystem and were copied over without preserving the pool hardlinks.
 >  For example if you rsync an individual pc directory into place,
 > subsequent rsync runs will link against those copies for existing
 > files but will only make the pool links for new/changed files.
 > 
 > -- 

It also can happen if you have filesystems with flaky hard linking --
I once had that issue with a bad user-space nfs module.

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