BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] prevent full OS partition when data disk fails

2015-07-14 07:14:22
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] prevent full OS partition when data disk fails
From: Bzzzz <lazyvirus AT gmx DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:12:43 +0200
On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 10:31:42 +0000
Jürgen Depicker <Jurgen.Depicker AT let DOT be> wrote:

> My setup: all virtualized; all backups stored in /var/lib/backuppc ,
> but that is /dev/sdb1 mounted there.  So if that drive fails, I'm
> pretty sure Backuppc will fill up my / partition recreating the backup
> in the then empty /var/lib/backuppc .  How can I prevent this?

Hi Jürgen,

It'll fail - and it's easy to test: unmount your HD, make sure you do not
have the original directories into /var/lib/backuppc and restart
backuppc.

JY

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