Re: Problem with Disk usage

David,

Thanks a lot for your help...

Here's the info you asked for:

i am running CentOS(64bit), the filesystem is ext3
rsync is rsync  version 2.6.3  protocol version 28

daily.2 seems to have linked files

[kunjan@bunker ~]$sudo du -csh /home/sepia/sitebackups/daily.2/
1.7G    /home/sepia/sitebackups/daily.2/
1.7G    total

[kunjan@bunker ~]$  sudo grep '^[^#]' /etc/rsnapshot.conf
Password:
config_version  1.2
snapshot_root   /home/sepia/sitebackups/
cmd_cp          /bin/cp
cmd_rm          /bin/rm
cmd_rsync       /usr/bin/rsync
cmd_logger      /usr/bin/logger
cmd_du          /usr/bin/du
cmd_rsnapshot_diff      /usr/bin/rsnapshot-diff
cmd_postexec    /home/sepia/sitebackups/postbackup.sh
interval        hourly  6
interval        daily   7
interval        weekly  4
verbose         5
loglevel        3
logfile /var/log/rsnapshot
lockfile        /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
link_dest       1
backup  /home/apache/           localhost/
backup  /etc/           localhost/

On 7/15/06, David Keegel <djk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 10:54:23PM -0500, Kunjan Shah wrote:
> > My disk usage looks like this below. isnt it supposed to be a lot less?
>
> Yes.
>
> > [kunjan@bunker ~]$ sudo rsnapshot du
>
> > 1.7G    /home/sepia/sitebackups/hourly.0/
> > 1.7G    /home/sepia/sitebackups/hourly.1/
> > 1.7G    /home/sepia/sitebackups/hourly.2/
> > 1.7G    /home/sepia/sitebackups/hourly.3/
> > 1.7G    /home/sepia/sitebackups/hourly.4/
> > 1.7G    /home/sepia/sitebackups/hourly.5/
> > 1.7G    /home/sepia/sitebackups/daily.0/
> > 1.7G    /home/sepia/sitebackups/daily.1/
> > 2.3M    /home/sepia/sitebackups/daily.2/
> > 1.7G    /home/sepia/sitebackups/daily.4/
> > 1.7G    /home/sepia/sitebackups/daily.5/
> > 17G     total
>
> It looks like all your snapshots except daily.2 have individual
> copies of the files.  Which doesn't sound right unless almost all
> your files change every 4 hours (or however often you do hourly
> rsnapshots.  daily.3 also seems to be missing.
>
> Can you start by sending to rsnapshot-discuss the output of
>         sudo grep '^[^#]' /etc/rsnapshot.conf
>
> Perhaps also
>         sudo du -csh /home/sepia/sitebackups/daily.2/
> so we can see whether daily.2 has linked files (as it should)
> or is an incomplete snapshot.
>
> Other generally useful information would be:
> * What Operating System are you running rsnapshot on?
> * What kind of file system is /home/sepia/sitebackups on?
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________
>  David Keegel <djk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/
>  Cybersource P/L: Linux/Unix Systems Administration Consulting/Contracting
>


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