Hi Craig, Is there a specific file I could edit to do what you mentioned in your previous mail?
"The fix was to wrap the unpack in an eval()." Thanks, ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Garith Dugmore" <[email protected]> > To: "Craig Barratt" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, 3 September, 2010 2:58:57 PM > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Cannot compress negative numbers in pack at > <snip>/Attrib.pm line 295 > 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/ -- Garith Dugmore Information Technology South African Astronomical Observatory and Southern African Large Telescope Phone: +27 21 460 6296 Fax: +27 21 447 3639 Fax2Email: 086 576 5048 SAAO Website: http://www.saao.ac.za SALT Website: http://www.salt.ac.za Jabber: [email protected] MSN: [email protected] Skype: garith5512 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
