On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Jürgen Depicker <Jurgen.Depicker AT let DOT 
be> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I wonder what is best practice to prevent the OS partition to fill up when
> my data disk fails.
>
>
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> I guess changing topDir may be an option, but there may be a more elegant
> solution?

I think that is a fairly unlikely scenario unless it is an external
drive being optionally automounted.   When I've seen drive failures on
running systems, the filesystem goes read-only or causes errors
instead of being unmounted, and on boot, failing to mount a partition
listed in fstab is fatal.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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