Re: [rdiff-backup-users] remove-older-than takes hours and slows down the system....

[Thomas S. Dixon]

actually, my first guess is that you're running out of temp space since 
you said there's 0% space available. i know there's a way to tell 
rdiff-backup to use a different location for temp, so either specify a 
temp location on a different disk with more space, or clear out some 
room before removing your increments.

hth
-tommy

Maarten Bezemer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My first guess would be that the harddisk containing the backup is
> dying. By pure coincidence, I've got a (Maxtor) 18GB harddisk with exact
> that problem. No bad blocks, just *very* slow. Trying to open a new xterm
> while accessing data on that drive occasionally takes up to 30 seconds...
>
> If the system is running some Unix flavor, you can try tools like 'top'
> and 'ps' to figure out if it's rdiff-backup running like a madman or it's
> maybe just the hardware.
>
> HTH,
>  Maarten
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Ryan Castle wrote:
>
>
> > That seems very odd. You could probably write a fairly quick perl
> > script that does the same as remove older than. All it does is removed
> > increments older than a certain date. In theory, it should be a simple
> > process.
> >
> > Ryan
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:35:59 -0500, George Gallen <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > I currently backup to a directory on the same system as the data for 
> > > an online backup system. The filesystem it's backing up has been reduced 
> > > to just about 0% space available. 
> > >
> > > I executed a rdiff-backup --force --remove-older-than mm/dd/yyyy
> > > /targetdirectory 
> > >
> > > It should have been about 60 incremental backups during that time frame, and
> > > an overall of about 15-20gb, with maybe a 1% daily change rate of the data. 
> > >
> > > Is it normal for rdiff-backup to slow the system down to a crawl, and/or
> > > take 
> > > over 3 hours (I had to Control-C the program), and in that amount of time
> > > only 
> > > 1% diskspace had been reclaimed? The total filesystem space is 18gb. 
> > >
> > > I will most likely backup the directory to tape, then I will hard delete the
> > > incremental backup directory, and start from scratch online, unless there is
> > > a faster way to remove the files? 
> > >
> > > This is running on a RH 7.3, The number of users is usually about 20, and is
> > > not open to the internet. 
> > >
> > > Thanks 
> > > George 
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