Garith, > As the subject suggestions I'm getting an error on a host I'm attempting to > backup. The exact error as it stands in the error log shows (server name > removed): > > 2010-09-01 12:08:28 <serverhostname>: Cannot compress negative numbers in > pack at /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm line 295. > 2010-09-01 12:08:35 Backup failed on <serverhostname> (Child exited > prematurely) > > I found the following post from 2004 -> > http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/2004-03/msg00066.html > and the solution was to change file File-RsyncP-0.46/FileList/FileList.xs. I > checked this file on my system and it already has those changes.
I'm not sure of the root cause, but in BackupPC 3.2.0 there is a fix to make sure this is a non-fatal error. The fix was to wrap the unpack in an eval(). Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
