sbackup will merrily eat all hard disk space
Håvard Dahle
havard at aerosat.co.za
Fri Nov 4 17:37:43 UTC 2005
Package: sbackup
Version: 0.8-1
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss; consumes all of /
The daemon is configured to backup to /media/backup, which is a usb
disk.
When the disk is not mounted (e.g. when I forget to plug it in when I
turn on the box), /media/backup is of coursly nothing but a regular dir
on /.
So, sbackupd notices that there are no previous backups and steams ahead
with a full backup. This quickly fills up /.
Perhaps sbackupd should (in prioritized order):
o not eat all disk space
o verify that there is disk space
o support a pre-hook where the sysadmin can mount the external medium /
check that it is mounted
Regarding the `Severity: critical' tag, I hope you agree that a full /
is a sorry state, even though it is easily remedied.
Thanks,
Håvard
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers breezy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'breezy-updates'), (500, 'breezy-security'), (500, 'breezy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-9-k7
Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages sbackup depends on:
ii gksu 1.3.0-1ubuntu11 graphical frontend to su
ii python 2.4.2-0ubuntu2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-glade2 2.8.1-0ubuntu2 GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii python-gnome2 2.12.1-0ubuntu1 Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii sudo 1.6.8p9-2ubuntu2.1 Provide limited super user privile
sbackup recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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