[Box Backup] Full server store not deleting old and deleted files (boxwin0.09)

[E.W. Peter Jalajas]

Thanks, Dennis and Ben.

Dennis:  Here's the script I run.  It's ugly, but it works for
me...suggestions very welcome: http://tebuco.com/dl/bbcheck.zip

--- Ben Summers <ben@fluffy.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> On 1 Mar 2006, at 04:18, E.W. Peter Jalajas wrote:
> 
> >
> > So, why haven't the old and deleted files been deleted?  And what
> > should I do to fix it?
> 
> Check your server logs to see if there's anything about interrupted  
> housekeeping. 

These all showed nothing:
  530  grep -i house /var/log/box.0
  531  grep -i house /var/log/box
  532  grep -i hk /var/log/box
  533  grep -i hk /var/log/box.0

>If the housekeeping takes too long and the client  
> connects too frequently, then housekeeping never deletes anything.

Here's the timings from their bbackupd.conf:

UpdateStoreInterval = 3600
MinimumFileAge = 21600
MaxUploadWait = 86400
FileTrackingSizeThreshold = 65535
DiffingUploadSizeThreshold = 8192
MaximumDiffingTime = 20

> 
> This is something to be aware of, and the reason I want to move to  
> ref-counted stores in the 0.20 version.
> 

So, for now, should I just increase their quota?  Temporarily?  Should
I put the known large-file BackupLocations (those with the big
QuickBooks file) at the end of the bbackupd.conf listing?

Thanks!
Pete


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