Craig Barratt schrieb: > Bradley writes: > > > Running into a problem with my larger machines doing backups. 90% of > > the time, the backup ends with the following message: > > > > backup failed (Tar exited with error 256 () status) > > > > I believe I read somewhere that it was due to a file changing during > > backup, probably in combination with the latency introducted in backup > > across the network. > > > > The reason I went with tar in the first place is that I read > > that rsync consumes more memory the larger the file list is, > > and this box has 256MB of RAM. > > > > My question at this point is the best approach to fixing this > > problem. I have been running backuppc since the beginning of the > > year, so I have at least 2 fulls and a weeks worth of incrementals, > > so, at least in theory, the number of files being rsynced should > > not be overly large. So should I convert my "problem children" to > > rsync, or should I convert everything over to rsync? Or is there a > > workaround for tar? > > What version of tar are you using? Torsten reported that the > newest version has changed the exit status in the case of > certain relatively benign warnings that are therefore considerd > fatal by BackupPC. > > Could you also look through the XferLOG file and confirm that > it is this same warning that tar is reporting? > > I still need to fix this issue for 3.x.
I'm getting the same error from one client since last week. It's an debian etch server that was updates just before the problem started. tar version 1.16, no problems with the old 1.15. Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
