System Backup "Insufficient amount of free disk space" - but there is!

[snowweb]

I'm having trouble getting System Backup to work.

I'm trying to have it backup just DNS info only (no domains, files or directories or databases). I only have about 20 domains, so it shouldn't be a very big backup.

I'm on a VPS with 30GB allocated to me and 27GB available.

I'm accepting the default backup path of "$MOUNT_POINT/backup".

And have tried leaving the check for space at it's default of 40,960MB on which would obviously fail as I only have 27GB available and have tried reducing it to 1000MB and the partition is on the default '/' since there is no other option in the dropdown list.

I still get an error saying 'Insufficient amount of free disk space'.

This is my filesystem, as reported by DirectAdmin:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vzfs 30G 3.4G 27G 12% /
none 8.0G 4.0K 8.0G 1% /dev

Can anyone show me what I'm doing wrong please?

Regards, Pete

 

[nobaloney]

It appears that the backup script isn't getting free space correctly from your VPS. The backup script is called "sysbck"; you may be able to search for information on it elsewhere on the 'net, or you may be able to find help from your VPS supplier or help forums.

I'm not sure if this is an issue you might expect DirectAdmin support to get involved with, but if you have a full license that comes with support, you might want to ask them.

Jeff

 

[snowweb]

It appears that the backup script isn't getting free space correctly from your VPS. The backup script is called "sysbck"; you may be able to search for information on it elsewhere on the 'net, or you may be able to find help from your VPS supplier or help forums.

I'm not sure if this is an issue you might expect DirectAdmin support to get involved with, but if you have a full license that comes with support, you might want to ask them.

Jeff

OK, thanks for that Jeff. Support is through my VPS provider, so I'll just contact them.

Regards, pete

PS, If I even find out what caused it, I'll post back here to let ya'll know

 

[snowweb]

My VPS provider appear to have resolved the above problem (although they haven't told me how they did it).

However, when testing it, I performed a manual backup selecting all available options for what to backup but when I checked the contents of the backup directory after recieving notification that the backup had completed, this is all that I could see:

[root@s1 ~]# cd /backup/07-08-08
[root@s1 07-08-08]# ls -a -l -sF
total 12
4 drw-r----- 3 root root 4096 Jul 8 11:42 ./
4 drw-r----- 3 root root 4096 Jul 8 11:42 ../
4 drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Jul 8 11:42 bind/
[root@s1 07-08-08]#

What does the 'total 12' mean? Are there hidden files or directories? If so, how do I view them - I'm already root? If not, where is my backup!

Very confuddled here!

Tnx in advance

pete