[CentOS] Size of /var/log/lastlog
Benjamin Smith
lists at benjamindsmith.com
Mon Nov 7 21:02:20 UTC 2005
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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