Disk (end of) life
Kid2 is happily running the urBackup system for 3 windows laptops but
doesn't really have the disk space required to continue the lifesize test
(i.e. backuping my most disk-intensive Linux systems). So I ordered a
2TB drive from Amazon. Got i/o errors then sent it back. Still waiting
confirmation for the refund, not a terribly good experience so far. I
recycled two 2.5" hard disks, one from an older laptop and another from a
thrift store, so I could continue running urBackup in the meantime.
Then I got i/o errors from the PATA drives (both of them, the 6.4GB from
an older desktop and also the 200GB from the thrift store).
Long story short, I did order another 2TB drive from eBay this time, it
arrived yesterday so I mounted and tested it. I removed the PATA drives
and currently the 300GB is still in the box but not connected due to
lack of SATA power cables.
Benchmarked the new drive, seems OK:
Add to btrfs
Like so:
sudo btrfs device add -f /dev/sdd /var/backup/urBackup
Then:
sudo btrfs filesystem show
Label: none uuid: 4881245e-bed5-4526-b9ff-3b5ba39b283d
Total devices 3 FS bytes used 145.29GiB
devid 1 size 465.76GiB used 74.03GiB path /dev/sdc1
devid 3 size 596.17GiB used 74.03GiB path /dev/sda1
devid 4 size 1.82TiB used 0.00B path /dev/sdd
Make some use of the new available space:
sudo btrfs balance start /var/backup/urBackup
WARNING:
Full balance without filters requested. This operation is very
intense and takes potentially very long. It is recommended to
use the balance filters to narrow down the scope of balance.
Use 'btrfs balance start --full-balance' option to skip this
warning. The operation will start in 10 seconds.
Use Ctrl-C to stop it.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Starting balance without any filters.
....after...a...long...while...
Done, had to relocate 75 out of 75 chunks
Label: none uuid: 4881245e-bed5-4526-b9ff-3b5ba39b283d
Total devices 3 FS bytes used 148.21GiB
devid 1 size 465.76GiB used 50.00GiB path /dev/sdc1
devid 3 size 596.17GiB used 51.03GiB path /dev/sda1
devid 4 size 1.82TiB used 51.03GiB path /dev/sdd
Add a new Linux client
Host run12l is a good candidate now that we have more space available. It has a 300GB HDSSD quite filled up with photos and videos. It used to have a client already installed, so it was just a matter of reactivating it and defining it in the "Unix" group so that the /home directory becomes the default backup directory instead of the C:\Users windows default. First full backup started, looks good.
