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Hi,

I got an email from my backuppc host this night:
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Yesterday 160 hosts were skipped because the file system containing
/var/lib/BackupPC/ was too full. The threshold in the
configuration file is 97%, while yesterday the file system was
up to 96% full.
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So I'm wondering about two facts there:
1. I don't have 160 hosts- where is this number coming from?
2. is 97% lower than 96%?

BackupPC 3.1.0 running on CentOS 5.x

Greetings

Christian

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On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 08:25 +0100, Christian Völker wrote:
Hi,

I got an email from my backuppc host this night:
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Yesterday 160 hosts were skipped because the file system containing
/var/lib/BackupPC/ was too full. The threshold in the
configuration file is 97%, while yesterday the file system was
up to 96% full.
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So I'm wondering about two facts there:
1. I don't have 160 hosts- where is this number coming from?
2. is 97% lower than 96%?

The filesystem may have become less full after the backups failed to
start but before the email was sent as the nightly tidying run will have
taken place.

ie in time order:

backups (failed) -> nightly tidying run (removes some old files) ->
sending email

--
Tim Fletcher <tim < at > night-shade.org.uk>


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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:25:57AM +0000, Tim Fletcher wrote:
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 08:25 +0100, Christian Völker wrote:
Hi,

I got an email from my backuppc host this night:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yesterday 160 hosts were skipped because the file system containing
/var/lib/BackupPC/ was too full. The threshold in the
configuration file is 97%, while yesterday the file system was
up to 96% full.
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So I'm wondering about two facts there:
1. I don't have 160 hosts- where is this number coming from?
2. is 97% lower than 96%?

In the past, I have puzzled over these same messages.


The filesystem may have become less full after the backups failed to
start but before the email was sent as the nightly tidying run will have
taken place.

If so, it would be less confusing to simply report the disk consumption
at the time of the failure.

-S

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