On Monday 02 February 2009 08:42:28 David C. Rankin wrote:
Bob Williams wrote:
On Thursday 29 January 2009 11:48:29 Bob Williams wrote:
On Thursday 29 January 2009 01:00:34 David C. Rankin wrote:
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.
Well, I finally tracked it down to the following file
file:///home/bob/.kde4/share/apps/carddecks/svg-oxygen/79/5_diamond.png
which thought it was 900,000 TiB!!!
Using the --progress option in rsync found the culprit.
Bob
Glad you got it going again. rsnapshop is handy once you make friends with it.
I actually found three more files reporting sizes orders of magnitude greater than the total storage capacity here. None were files that I had created, i.e. they were all part of the system. Co-incidentally, when I rebooted (I tend to leave this machine running 24/7) /dev/md0 (where /home is mounted) triggered another manual fsck, which required me to say yes to a very long list of inode problems. Presumably, the very big files could be explained by lots of hardlinks, but how a small file like the one above could grow that large when it's not even accessed (I don't play patience/solitaire), is beyond me. Anyway, rsnapshot is once again running well. :) Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.1, Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default, KDE 3.5.10 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org