Ray Leventhal wrote:
Sorin Srbu wrote:
Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM:
I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really stumped as to where the space is being eaten up.
Try a yum clean all. That might help. But if it's as you say, not connected to
Hi again all,
There was a 3.5hr power outage last night which explains it all. Sadly, I've got some investigation to do about why my *supposed* 5hrs of battery backup didn't last long enough to cover, but the mount point was, in fact, unmounted and so rsync did it's job right into the folder as opposed to the ext. drive.
As always, my sincere thanks to this list and to our CentOS maintainers.
Kindest regards, -Ray
I noticed the chorus of agreement that your problem was likely a result of failure to mount your backup drive. My backup script, which also uses rsync begins like this, insuring a good mount before shoving bytes around. It's not SUPPOSED to be mounted before the script runs but I test for that, too. (The drive label is OTOT):
#!/bin/bash # Backup using rsync and rotating directories # #Set the Dest. Mount UD=/media/OTOT MS=8388608 # Minimum free space 8GB # # Drive mount logic: # if [ -z $(mount | grep $UD | awk '{ print $3 }') ]; then mount $UD fi if [ -z $(mount | grep $UD | awk '{ print $3 }') ]; then echo "Drive refuses to mount!!" exit 1 fi # # Drive is mounted. Get device name # XDR=$(mount | grep $UD | awk '{ print $1 }')
etc., etc.