Just noticed the /var/log/backuppc/LOG file for BackupPC is pumping these out mercilessly:
2008-12-10 06:49:02 BackupPC_link got error -4 when calling MakeFileLink(/mnt/backup/pc/shuttle <http://adamsmdk/backuppc/BackupPC_Admin.cgi?host=shuttle>/0/f%2f/fhome/fmadams/f.beagle/fTextCache/f97/f1a4401-b13f-4ebb-bcc9-971de65dae6d, 6c34911b58a200c2e8615c3d37c8e33d, 1) And /home/madams/.beagle is supposed to be on the exclude list! I need a little help here. This thing is getting out of hand. Mark Adams wrote: > I've Googled for this and scanned the BackupPC docs and I don't see a > solution for this. > > The issue is my desktop is spending hours creating huge backups on the > server. The current "incremental" backup started at 7:00 this morning > and is still running now at 12:15, and is running about 21G. Listing > the files under /mnt/backup/pc/spike/new indicates that all of the same > files in the full backup are being backed up by this incremental. > > All told, the initial full backup was only 16 Gigs! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0]# du -s > 16G . > > Here's a partial directory listing (no relatively small log files, lock, > etc.) and the original full backup, plus the completed first > incremental, plus almost 5 hours worth of the today's incremental backup > amount to almost 70 Gig! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] spike]# ll > total 34904 > drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 2008-12-08 14:28 0/ > drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 2008-12-09 02:13 1/ > drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc 4096 2008-12-10 07:00 new/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] spike]# du -s > 70G . > > Here is a link to the config I'm using. > ftp://adams-lan.blogdns.org/config.pl.nocomments > > And my per-pc config. Some of you have seen it before: > # cat spike.pl > $Conf{TopDir} = '/mnt/attic/spike_images'; > $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync'; > $Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = ['/floppy']; > $Conf{BackupFilesOnly} = ['/mnt/spike/images', '/mnt/spike/photos']; > > > How did I screw this up? > > -- Mark E. Adams Random Musing: At many levels, Perl is a "diagonal" language. -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
