Hi Craig, No luck unfortunately.
I downloaded BackupPC 3.2.0 and ran ./configure. After answering all the questions and restarting BackupPC I see it says it is in fact version 3.2. After running the backup on that same host I get the same error: 2010-09-03 13:19:28 <serverhostname>: Cannot compress negative numbers in pack at /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm line 302. Different line number though - probably because its updated now. Info on system now after upgrade: File-RsyncP-0.70 perl 5.8.8 BackupPC 3.2.0 Thanks in advance, ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Craig Barratt" <[email protected]> > To: "Garith Dugmore" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, 2 September, 2010 7:51:56 AM > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot compress negative numbers in pack at > <snip>/Attrib.pm line 295 > 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 -- Garith Dugmore ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
