7 Nov
2005
7 Nov
'05
10:02 p.m.
On Sunday 06 November 2005 15:38, Les Mikesell wrote:
It does make a good test case for whether your backup method handles sparse files gracefully, though. And how long it takes to read through even if it does.
Which is exactly how I identified the problem. Our disk2disk backups (via rsync) got plowed when we installed a new CentOS 4.1 system and we ended up with a lastlog many times the size of the total disk space in the backup cluster.
Argh...
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