2024-06-21, 03:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-06-21, 03:11 AM by kro. Edited 1 time in total.)
woot !
finally I could restore the 3 months old database backup and combine it with the recent metadata directory (I could not get from the backup disk anymore).
everything seems to work, I guess I just have lost 3 months of metadata and recently added users, but it's really better than I went to think.
For the record I also got the reason behind the lack of free space : I was taking snapshots (with rsnapshot) on a directory that was supposedly a mountpoint for an external support, except it was not mounted. So I've just created quickly a bunch of unnoticed content on my system part. I really should be more careful with that, and add condition for mounts in my scripts.
A lot of stress for luckily not much harm.
Now is the time to setup reliable automatic backups.
... and still : yes, I guess the system should abort before creating those 0 bit files everywhere ! It's such a basic and critical issue...
finally I could restore the 3 months old database backup and combine it with the recent metadata directory (I could not get from the backup disk anymore).
everything seems to work, I guess I just have lost 3 months of metadata and recently added users, but it's really better than I went to think.
For the record I also got the reason behind the lack of free space : I was taking snapshots (with rsnapshot) on a directory that was supposedly a mountpoint for an external support, except it was not mounted. So I've just created quickly a bunch of unnoticed content on my system part. I really should be more careful with that, and add condition for mounts in my scripts.
A lot of stress for luckily not much harm.
Now is the time to setup reliable automatic backups.
... and still : yes, I guess the system should abort before creating those 0 bit files everywhere ! It's such a basic and critical issue...
