OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/openmediavault-rsnapshot

rsnapshot does the job even when the disk is not present

billboule opened this issue · 6 comments

billboule commented

Hello,

I'll try my best to explain the problem in English:

  • set an rsnapshot task coming form a share folder in disk 1 to share folder in disk 2
  • it woks fine until you disconnect disk 2
  • if disk 2 is not present and cron starts for a snapshot, a folder is created on your main operating system disk in /media/UUID-of-the-disk and the snapshot is made... until your / is full ;-(

Possible fix : The program should test if the share is available before the start of the rsync....

ryecoaaron commented

This would be a major problem since OMV assumes for every plugin that the shared folder is mounted if present. The only way to unmount a drive in the web interface is to delete the shared folder. I can look at checking in rsnapshot but this is a bigger problem.

billboule commented

what I did is:

  • halt the server
  • unplug the disk 2
  • start the server with disk 1 only (and the SD card where debian is installed)
ryecoaaron commented

I know how to recreate it but you aren't supposed to do that and expect everything to function properly.

billboule commented

.... if you say that.... I dind't know I was doing an "illegal" action.
to me it looks like : OMV knows if the physical disk is present, and the share should be active only if the partition is mounted

ryecoaaron commented

That is a nice idea but OMV has never worked that way. The shared folder is always active. It doesn't check to make sure the drive is mounted.

On Apr 15, 2016, at 9:12 AM, billboule notifications@github.com wrote:

.... if you say that.... I dind't know I was doing an "illegal" action.
to me it looks like : OMV knows if the physical disk is present, and the share should be active only if the partition is mounted

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billboule commented

Ok, so this is just a misunderstood on my side on how OMV works.
It looks to me that a lot of users are using removable drive in a personnal or semi-pro config (because they are using boards -like rasberry pi- or normal PC but not a real server config)
Thanks