Taking make tape backup while the root file system is nearing full

[Jeeshan]

Hi

One of my server's root file system (/) is 85% filled up. And now i'm gonna take make_tape backup. During this backup in lvmconf folder there will be some vg.old file and will increase root file system.

How will i avoid this?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jeeshan:

You an always remove (or move to another directory) the '/etc/lvmconf/vg*.old' fiiles before you begin the 'make_tape_recovery'. Then, the current files will be renamed "*.old" and new backups will be created.

Regards!

...JRF...

[UVA]

Hi,

you can safely move those file's to some other filesystem. it will be recreated.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

You should do this:

du -k | sort -rn | more

From /

Identify the location of some large files and clear them out.

The root fs is not a place where regular files besides some configuration files belong.

make_tape_backup however stores its temporary files in /var filesystem and should be able to be run under these circumstances.

SEP

[Jeeshan]

I'm not talking about the /etc/lvmconf/*.old files.

I have deleted all *.old files from /etc/lvmconf. but still the / size is 88%. I afraid while taking backup the /size will be 100%.

How can I eliminate to filled up / file system full?

[Raj Briden]

try this command to find out who is taking more size

du -sk * |sort -n |tail.

share bdf output

[Viktor Balogh]

Hi Jeeshan,

You can also check for unlinked files. These are the files that were deleted but some processes are connecting to. They consume filesystem space until their processes get killed.

What is the output of:

# lsof +D / +L1 | awk '$8 == "0" || /NLINK/'

For further explanation see the posts:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1272266216476+28353475&threadId=1341750

and

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1376427