[Box Backup] disk usage changed after move

[J. Meyers]

Hello Ben,


thanks for your fast replys! I'll try with regex in a minute...


No, there were no terminates or abnormal disconnects according to the 
syslogs. While doing the first complete backup a couple of days ago the size 
(according to bbstoreaccounts info) climbed up to 6GB and bumped down to 
1,2GB (?) while normally (!) disconnecting after some hours. It was 
interesting that in the second of finishing the initial backup bbackupd 
reconnected for a new sync to the server with no more transfers. At the next 
housekeeping event the size was corrected to 6GB. Then I excluded a 
forgotten directory with about 500mb and the size went down to 5,5GB (+ 
500mb old files) and remained so for about 5 days until the disk copy/change 
(with some small changes in size and for old and deleted files). After the 
disk change and the first housekeeping event it changed to 6GB + 500MB old 
files.


Thank you for the great work!
J.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Summers" <ben@fluffy.co.uk>
To: <boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Box Backup] disk usage changed after move


>
> On 22 Nov 2004, at 17:34, J. Meyers wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> Box Backup works really great on Debian Sarge, many thanks go to Ben! 
>> I've been searching for such sort of client/server backup using disks for 
>> months. Until now no files bigger 2GB here ;-).
>>
>> I noticed something interesting. Last sunday we moved the backups to a 
>> new server. In bbstoredaccounts blocks used showed up as about 5500Mb 
>> before, and 6000Mb after the move. The complete system (boot) disk was 
>> copied from a 80GB Maxtor to one of the same model, so the block size 
>> remained 4096 Byte on the ext3 filesystem and the rest oft the system is 
>> identical. When first starting up bbstored after the move I noticed the 
>> following in syslog
>>
>> Nov 21 13:07:13 gate bbstored/hk[495]: different (store,calc): acc 
>> 0x00002001,
>> used (1509396,1544540), old (79611,79738), deleted (144465,144483), dirs 
>> (6223,
>> 6446)
>>
> [snip]
>> Everything works with no errors, but 500MB more usage after a simple copy 
>> seems rather strange to me.
>
>
> It's still exactly the same size, it's just that the store you copied over 
> had incorrect usage information as revealed by the syslog message you saw.
>
> This incorrect information will most likely have been caused by a client 
> being disconnected without logging out first. Did you forcefully terminate 
> either client or server during the move? Is there anything interesting in 
> the client logs?
>
> Ben
>
>
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