[BLU/Officers] in situ backups

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 06/18/2011 11:39 PM, David Kramer wrote:
> On 06/18/2011 10:58 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> While I like the idea of an in-situ backup, it does not make any sense
>> for Pegasus. I could probably run a nightly backup on my system.
>> We are currently at 91% on /var (but we have some free space on the
>> Volume Group). But we have an unused 200GB on each of the remaining
>> space on the 300GB drives.
>> I have not heard from JABR today, but logwatch is reporting drive full.
>> I have to go out for a while, but If I don't get a response from JABR, I
>> will expand the /var logical volume to get the utilization down.
>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/PegasusVG-Root
>>                       9.5G  5.4G  3.6G  61% /
>> /dev/mapper/PegasusVG-Var
>>                       3.8G  3.3G  365M  91% /var
>> /dev/mapper/PegasusVG-Local
>>                       248M   16M  220M   7% /usr/local
>> /dev/mapper/PegasusVG-Home
>>                        37G   30G  5.0G  86% /home
>> /dev/mapper/PegasusVG-Opt
>>                       1.2G  446M  701M  39% /opt
>> /dev/md0               99M   33M   61M  35% /boot
>> tmpfs                 6.9G     0  6.9G   0% /dev/shm
>> /dev/sdb3             208G  1.5G  196G   1% /archive1
>> /dev/sdc3             208G  188M  197G   1% /archive2
>>
>> /dev/md1 is currently about 68GB. What I would like to do is to create
>> another VG and RAID1 on the 2 300GB drives and move /home and /var. and
>> use /dev/md1 for root and swap.
> Thanks for looking into that.  My checkhealth script has been catching
> the drive full issued, but since everyone already knew about it (and
> JABR said he was working on it), I didn't bring it up.
In any case, JABR was able to remove about 20GB of stuff out of /home
and resize both /home and /var.

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