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[BackupPC-users] BackupPC v4 running fsck all the time

2015-09-21 13:47:46
Subject: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC v4 running fsck all the time
From: Jimmy <mupperoni AT gmail DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 13:45:47 -0400
Hi,

It seems that BackupPC v4 runs fsck each time it does a backup, both incr or full. After an actual backup, it would run fsck on all the backups that it has for the host.

For example, host "pc1" has backup #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, and the new backup created #8. After BackupPC created backup #8, it would run fsck on #1, then on to #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8 before it goes to "idle".

And when it runs again the next time to create backup #9, it would then run fsck all over again for all the backups (#1 - #9).

This makes each backup run for every host to take a very long time to finish and sometimes it takes longer than 24 hours to complete the whole fsck cycle against all the backups.

As a result, the backup lags behind and instead of a daily backup, I get backups that have gaps, be it a 1 day gap or 2+ day gap.

This is an issue for computers with a large number of files + a big total size of data.

Is this a normal behaviour? Is there something that can be done to improve this situation so that I have no gaps in my backups?

Regards,
Jimmy
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