The server being backed up is running FreeBSD 6.2. The backup server is running CentOS.
As for the directory being backed up, it has a ton of subdirectories and files, it is a hashed structure. Just still has 40K+ files and directories per. --John Craig Barratt wrote: > John writes: > >> I'm running BackupPC 3.0.0 on CentOS 4, with ext3 file systems. When >> trying to backup one of our servers, BackupPC logs the below error: >> >> Too many links at /backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract line 320 > > mkdir() is failing. It appears that certain file systems have a limit > of ~32K subdirectories. I'm not sure why it would fail if the client > and backup server file systems are the same (the directory tree should > be the same on the backup server as the client). > > Do you have directories that have a very large number of subdirectories? > Look through the XferLOG file to see where the error occurs. > > Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
