[Dxspider-support] user_asc.o.o files

[Dirk Koopman]

On 11/11/12 23:24, Nick - VE3EY wrote:
> DX Spider keeps rotating a file called user_asc under /spider/data
> directory.
>
> The files grew to a size of 200Gb each causing the hard drive to fill up:
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 sysop spider  22526726144 2012-10-03 00:28 user_asc.ooooo
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 sysop spider  60720771072 2012-10-10 07:51 user_asc.oooo
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 sysop spider  18055376896 2012-10-16 23:33 user_asc.ooo
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 sysop spider  16990683136 2012-10-23 23:20 user_asc.oo
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 sysop spider 113401839616 2012-10-31 17:58 user_asc.o
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 sysop spider 215627042816 2012-11-10 19:01 user_asc
>
> Is there any way to control the rotation of these files or disable these
> alltogether?
>

No. Or at least not without breaking any future updating.

What I would suggest though is that they are the result of corruption in 
the DB_File (spit) original. A solution might be stop the node, cd 
/spider/data, run 'perl user_asc.oo' (the smallest one) and then restart 
the node. Feel free to remove a few of the files to make room. This 
should remove all the cruft and bring future backups down in size.

A more reasonable size is:

-rw-rw-r--  1 spider spider 25107269 2012-11-07 00:01 user_asc
-rw-rw-r--  1 spider spider 25075500 2012-10-31 00:01 user_asc.o
-rw-rw-r--  1 spider spider 25048296 2012-10-24 01:01 user_asc.oo
-rw-rw-r--  1 spider spider 25018577 2012-10-17 01:01 user_asc.ooo
-rw-rw-r--  1 spider spider 24987999 2012-10-10 01:01 user_asc.oooo
-rw-rw-r--  1 spider spider 24957591 2012-10-03 01:01 user_asc.ooooo

Another thing I can't help noticing is that your backups are being done 
at random times of day and week. How is this occurring? It should be 
happening at 00:01 UTC every Wednesday.