[Box Backup] No housekeeping?

[dave bamford]

Hi Peter

I had a similar problem and it turned out Housekeeping was aborting on a
corrupt account and never restarting until I restarted bbstored.
Try starting bbstored -v and check the logs

Regards

Dave Bamford

On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 17:43 +0100, Peter Hall wrote:
> Hi fellow boxbackup users,
> 
> 
> My store is full, and it seems housekeeping isn't running!
> 
> 
> # bbstoreaccounts info 1
>           Account ID: 0x00000001
>       Last object ID: 0x1106496
>                 Used:  243199923 blocks,  927.73 GB,  99% |
> *************** |
>            Old files:    3849882 blocks,   14.69 GB,   1% |
>      |
>        Deleted files:  127698533 blocks,  487.13 GB,  52% |********
>      |
>          Directories:     451091 blocks,    1.72 GB,   0% |
>      |
>           Soft limit:  230400000 blocks,  878.91 GB,  94% |
> *************** |
>           Hard limit:  243200000 blocks,  927.73 GB, 100% |
> ****************|
>  Client store marker: 17851542
> 
> 
> Plenty of deleted files to remove and make space for new ones, but
> it's been like this for days now.
> 
> 
> I've tried restarting the server, and drastically lowering the
> housekeeping limit:
> # grep -i keep /etc/boxbackup/bbstored.conf
> TimeBetweenHousekeeping = 120
> 
> 
> But still no cleaning of the old files.
> 
> 
> All the references to housekeeping I can find in the logs are:
> client=0x00000001[29150]: WARNING: Reference count database is missing
> or corrupted, creating a new one, expect housekeeping to find and fix
> problems with reference counts later.
> 
> 
> I have run a fix of the account with "bbstoreaccounts check 1 fix". It
> found and fixed three errors on the first run, subsequent runs find no
> errors.
> 
> 
> bbstored seems to be doing something though, it takes around 45%
> memory and 50% cpu if I consult 'top'.
> 
> 
> Is it normal that it can take several days before I see any
> housekeeping progress on a store of this size?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Peter
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