Re: Problems disk usage after migrated/reinstalled from 3.3 to 4.4

Hi there,

On Sun, 16 Nov 2025, klxout wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2025, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Nov 2025, klxout wrote:
> > >
> > >> I have similar issues described in
> > >> https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/418
> > >> ...
> > >> ...
> > >> Any suggestion to solve this problems?
> >
> > First let's make sure that there *is* a problem. ...
> > ...
> > 1.
> >
> > Did you run BackupPC_nightly by hand?
> >
> > How many times has it been run on the nightly backup schedule since
> > your most recent install of BackupPC version 4?
> > ...
> 
> I have forced executed multiples times changing time, and now after
> 7 day seems that some files were purged but not all because I have a
> retention full 2 days and incremental 1 day

I'm sure that BackupPC is working just fine.

Over on Github I've just comitted b343cb5 to add a bit more logging to
BackupPC_nightly.  Now if $Conf{XferLogLevel}>=3 in the configuration,
then the log shows how many files - otherwise eligible for deletion -
were skipped because their mtime was more recent than the hard-coded
value of 7 days prior to the time of the nightly run.  It also logs
the number of blocks occupied by those files.

From the most recent BackupPC_nightly run here:

8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------
2025-11-19 01:00:01 Running 1 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of 0..15)
2025-11-19 01:00:01 Running BackupPC_nightly -m -P 13 0 255 (pid=29902)
2025-11-19 01:00:01 Next wakeup is 2025-11-19 02:00:00
2025-11-19 01:00:02 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_refCountUpdate -m -s -c -P 13 -r 0-255
2025-11-19 01:00:02  admin : __bpc_pidStart__ 29907
2025-11-19 01:00:20 Started incr backup on ...
...
...
...
2025-11-19 01:27:17 Started incr backup on ...
2025-11-19 01:46:01 Finished incr backup on ...
2025-11-19 02:00:13 Next wakeup is 2025-11-19 03:00:00
2025-11-19 02:10:28  admin : BackupPC_refCountUpdate total errors: 0
2025-11-19 02:10:28  admin : BackupPC_refCountUpdate skipped deleting 557 unused files which currently occupy a total of 16048 blocks
2025-11-19 02:10:28  admin : __bpc_pidEnd__ 29907
2025-11-19 02:10:29 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail
8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------

There's been a suggestion that seven days might be a bit long.  At the
moment I'm in no hurry to change it, or to make it a configuration
option, but I'd consider PRs for the latter.  Note that EditConfig.pl
is (not to put too fine a point on it) a nightmare.  If anyone wants
to take up the gauntlet there's a debug version of sorts here.

-- 

73,
Ged.


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