From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 7 16:26:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7AE16A420 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 16:26:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gbentley@uk2.net) Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net (pih-relay04.plus.net [212.159.14.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA23B43D45 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 16:26:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gbentley@uk2.net) Received: from [81.174.174.115] (helo=admin) by pih-relay04.plus.net with smtp (Exim) id 1F6Vg8-00064Z-T7 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:26:57 +0000 Message-ID: <000a01c62c03$49decca0$0807a8c0@admin> From: "Graham Bentley" To: References: <000f01c62b47$44fc84f0$0807a8c0@admin> <44k6c78915.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 16:26:45 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Subject: Re: Help on Tape Backups / Disc Space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:26:59 -0000 Thanks for the reply Lowell. > Are you just guessing here, or do you have a reason to think this is > happening? Not sure what you mean? I cut and paste the logs so clearly there is something happening i.e. a reason for those messages? > A quick look at flexbackup makes me think that it uses > virtual memory, not file space, to buffer data for spooling. Yes, I think you are right ! Here is a cut from the conf file :- # Buffering program - to help streaming $buffer = 'buffer'; # one of false/buffer/mbuffer $buffer_megs = '10'; # buffer memory size (in megabytes) $buffer_fill_pct = '75'; # start writing when buffer this percent full > Do you even know for sure that your backup was running at the > time that the filesystem full messages were generated? Unfortunatly not - the times are different so this could two unrelated issues. > Maybe. At some point you filled /data up. You don't have enough > information here to indicate why. If you could indicate which information I would need would that help? > You will probably want to keep closer track to understand your > usage patterns better. Any tips on how to do that ?