On Monday 18 September 2006 09:48, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 09:27 -0700, David Koski wrote: > > 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? > > That's 'not supposed' to happen on filesystems with unix semantics. > That is, if a process gets a file open, it is supposed to continue > to have access to it's data even if some other process removes > or renames it. It could happen if another process truncates > it - which doesn't seem likely for programs using maildir format. > It also might happen over an NFS mount, although NFS goes through > some contortions to avoid it. In any case, it is somehow related > to filesystem activity and probably doesn't hurt much as long > as you can restore the other files.
But this error occurs in the same position day after day, increasing in number of times it is found in the log. Now for a dumb question: Does that error indicate a problem on the backuppc server or the server being backed up? I have been assuming the whole time it was the backuppc server. Thanks, 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/
