The file system with the backups is ext3

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Brian Woodworth wrote:
> > Yes, I have complete backups.  My problem appears to be a known bug as
> > stated earlier in the thread.  Craig was kind enough to post a solution,
> > but the problem is I don't know how to go about following his
> instructions.
>
> I believe his fix only applied to systems installed on XFS file systems.
>  Is that what you are using?
>
>
> >      > > It looks like BackupPC_nightly is failing to traverse the pool.
> >      > > This could be due to a bug in IO::Dirent that causes it to fail
> >      > > on certain file systems.  There is a test in 3.1.0 to check if
> >      > > IO::Dirent works, but it checks ".", not $TopDir.  That bug is
> >      > > fixed in CVS.
> >      > >
> >      > > Do you have IO::Dirent installed and is your pool on XFS?
> >      > >
> >      > > If so, change this line in lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm:
> >      > >
> >      > >    $IODirentOk = 1;
> >      > >
> >      > > to:
> >      > >
> >      > >    $IODirentOk = 0;
>
> Just use a text editor to change that line and restart backuppc.  If you
> have a packaged install and don't know where the lib directory is, the
> command 'locate BackupPC/Lib.pm' should find the file.
>
> --
>   Les Mikesell
>    lesmikes...@gmail.com
>
>
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