Les Mikesell on 1/10/2014 5:01 PM, wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, if the external disk is missing (or NFS not mounted properly), the >> mount point will just point to your local disk, and BackupPC will fill your >> disk to the max. >> >> If you suddenly found out that your OS disk is full, that indicates >> something wrong with your mounting >> >> It happen to my customer who use 2nd disk for BackupPC data, and at one time >> the disk did not mount properly, and the 1st disk was filled to the max. > I think the top level directory has to exist (or the target of the > symlink if you use one) for that to happen. I'm not sure if that's > the case for devices that udev mounts by label names or not. That > is, if the mount point directory goes away with the device. > > In any case it might be worth setting a a cron job to stop backuppc > and send a notification if the disk is not present when it is > expected.
I figured the situation would be the same as misconfiguring backuppc to backup to a non-existent directory. I'm trying it out soon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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/
