Bob Williams wrote:
Hi,
For the past few months, I've been using Rsnapshot to to do backups of /home and /etc to an external hard drive. It's worked well.
However, this week, it's started thrashing the hard drive, and appears to be making a 50GB backup (that's the size of the source, so an incremental backup will be much less) go on and on. When the 500GB target drive is half full, I intervene and kill the rsync process.
Below is part of the logfile from this evening, but it's not very informative.
Can anyone suggest where I should look, please?
[28/Jan/2009:18:00:01] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: started [28/Jan/2009:18:00:01] echo 12893 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid [28/Jan/2009:18:00:01] mv /media/VirtualMachines/Snapshots/daily.0/ /media/VirtualMachines/Snapshots/daily.1/ [28/Jan/2009:18:00:01] mkdir -m 0755 -p /media/VirtualMachines/Snapshots/daily.0/ [28/Jan/2009:18:00:01] /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded --exclude-from=/home/bob/bin/excludedfiles --link-dest=/media/VirtualMachines/Snapshots/daily.1/localhost/ /home /media/VirtualMachines/Snapshots/daily.0/localhost/ [28/Jan/2009:20:12:14] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 20 while processing /home/ [28/Jan/2009:20:12:14] /etc/ skipped due to rollback plan [28/Jan/2009:20:12:14] /usr/share/fonts/ skipped due to rollback plan [28/Jan/2009:20:12:14] Rolling back "localhost/" [28/Jan/2009:20:12:14] /bin/rm -rf /media/VirtualMachines/Snapshots/daily.0/localhost/ [28/Jan/2009:20:12:22] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: ERROR: rsnapshot was sent TERM signal... cleaning up [28/Jan/2009:20:12:22] rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
Do df -h I bet you have filled up your root partition up. Then do a: du -hcs on /var/backup/snapshot You will find where all your disc space went. What happens is the default location for the backups /var/backup/snapshot is on the / root partition which is generally limited to 20G on opensuse. So one backup with a vmware or virtualbox image in your home folder pretty much fills it up. To solve this, just move the backup location to your /home partition. I keep mine at /home/backup/snapshots. Just to (as root) md /home/backup mv /var/backup/snapshots /home/backup Then edit your rsnapshot.conf and change the default location and your done. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org