On Monday 18 September 2006 09:18, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 09:10 -0700, David Koski wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 10:01 -0700, David Koski wrote: > > > > Last nights backup looks about the same with same errors. There are > > > > about 64 of these: > > > > > > > > Unable to read 2757426 bytes from > > > > /home/backuppc/pc/mail/new//f%2f/RStmp got=2287922, seekPosn=78452430 > > > > (4608,339,10001,80740352,81347343) > > > > The errors have returned. I am getting about 20 exactly like this: > > > > Unable to read 7389184 bytes from /home/backuppc/pc/mail/new//f%2f/RStmp > > got=6832128, seekPosn=364363776 (6656,451,22691,371195904,371762304) > > > > ..and about 80 with other numeric parameters. Any idea what might cause > > this? > > > > > I still don't understand those, but maybe they are a symptom of: > > > > There are about 225 of these: > > > > > > > > Remote[2]: file has vanished: "/var/CommuniGate/Queue/27732874.msg" > > > > > > These are normal when backing up active file systems. It just means > > > that the file went away between reading the directory to get the > > > name and opening the file. I'm not sure what backuppc does with > > > growing/shrinking files - tar takes only the length known when > > > the header is written and pads with nulls if the file has shrunk. > > > > I have excluded the Queue directory to eliminate these.
Just to clarify, I am not getting "file has vanished" errors since I excluded the Queue directory from backup. > Same problem, different place. The files are disappearing between > the time the directory is read to find the name and opening the > file for copying. That looks like a maildir directory where > frequent changes would be expected. The "Unable to read" problem indicates the same "seekPosn" and other parameters every day for the past several days. Do you still think it is a transient file issue? Regards, David ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
