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bobthebob1234
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 Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:52 pm Post subject: Full backup hard drive |
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jim@vle1:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 294G 294G 0 100% /backup-hdd
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What happens now?
Backups are still appearing, and ls -lh says they are about the right size (5.5gb tars, once a week), however extracting the latest one I get
| Code: | gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now |
Are they really there, overwriting old ones or what?
I have used webmin to set up a filesystem backup (well a directory backup).
I guess I need to write a quick script to delete old backups?
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nelz
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:07 pm Post subject: Re: Full backup hard drive |
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| bobthebob1234 wrote: | | Are they really there, overwriting old ones or what? |
I would hope not, it would be a lousy backup program that overwrote the previous backups before verifying the new ones.
I'd suggest deleting some of the 50-odd old backups you have to make some space, or switch to a system that uses incremental backups.
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guy
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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What is your backup program supposed to do when the drive fills up?
That's a bit rhetorical - I never like challenging the program's quality with real-life boundary conditions like that. Yes, get rid of the oldest backups to create some space - just check whether you should be archiving them somewhere first!
A routine script to archive/delete the oldest file after backing up might be useful - assuming of course that it behaves sensibly if the archive medium is full!
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