Dear BackupPC Users, I am running BackupPC-4.1.3 for several months without problems (really a great piece of software).
About a week ago a strange type of error occured and keeps staying, which I cannot understand. The error messages are like this ("fs" is the name of one of my systems to be backed up; I did some linebreaks to increase readability): 2018-01-28 23:43:34 Can't create /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/149/refCnt 2018-01-29 02:09:34 Serious error: last backup /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/149 directory doesn't exist!!! Need to remove back to last filled backup 2018-01-29 02:09:34 Deleting backup 147 2018-01-29 02:09:35 BackupPC_backupDelete: removing #147 2018-01-29 02:09:35 BackupPC_backupDelete: No prior backup for merge 2018-01-29 02:09:52 BackupPC_refCountUpdate: doing fsck on fs #149 since /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/149/refCnt doesn't exist 2018-01-29 02:09:52 Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /vol/opt/BackupPC-4.1.3/bin/BackupPC_refCountUpdate line 380. 2018-01-29 02:09:52 BackupPC_backupDelete: got 1 errors 2018-01-29 02:09:52 Finished BackupPC_backupDelete, status = 256 (running time: 18 sec) 2018-01-29 02:09:52 Deleting backup 148 2018-01-29 02:09:52 BackupPC_backupDelete: removing #148 2018-01-29 02:09:52 BackupPC_backupDelete: No prior backup for merge 2018-01-29 02:09:55 BackupPC_refCountUpdate: doing fsck on fs #149 since /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/149/refCnt doesn't exist 2018-01-29 02:09:55 Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at /vol/opt/BackupPC-4.1.3/bin/BackupPC_refCountUpdate line 380. 2018-01-29 02:09:55 BackupPC_backupDelete: got 1 errors 2018-01-29 02:09:55 Finished BackupPC_backupDelete, status = 256 (running time: 3 sec) 2018-01-29 02:09:55 Deleting backup 149 2018-01-29 02:09:56 BackupPC_backupDelete: removing #149 2018-01-29 02:09:56 BackupPC_backupDelete: No prior backup for merge 2018-01-29 02:38:20 BackupPC_refCountUpdate: host fs got 0 errors (took 1704 secs) 2018-01-29 02:38:20 Finished BackupPC_backupDelete, status = 0 (running time: 1705 sec) 2018-01-29 03:16:29 dump failed: unable to open/create /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/XferLOG.147.z 2018-01-29 03:55:15 dump failed: unable to open/create /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/XferLOG.147.z 2018-01-29 04:15:15 dump failed: unable to open/create /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/XferLOG.147.z 2018-01-29 23:43:54 dump failed: unable to open/create /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/XferLOG.147.z 2018-01-30 01:24:02 dump failed: unable to open/create /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/XferLOG.147.z 2018-01-30 02:36:01 dump failed: unable to open/create /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/XferLOG.147.z 2018-01-30 03:42:01 dump failed: unable to open/create /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/XferLOG.147.z 2018-01-30 04:12:01 dump failed: unable to open/create /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/XferLOG.147.z 2018-01-30 23:57:53 Copying backup #146 to #147 2018-01-31 01:05:38 Can't mkpath /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/147/./fsysbak/f.../fLocked/f00 2018-01-31 01:05:38 Can't copy ./fsysbak/f.../fLocked/f00/attrib_dc793dc4650baa1a8cc3b69d211573c1 to /vol/bpc4/BackupPC/pc/fs/147/./fsysbak/f.../fLocked/f00/attrib_dc793dc4650baa1a8cc3b69d211573c1 ... The last pair of messages is then repeated for thousands of files. It seems, that there is an error concerning the sequence. I had checked for several default reasons: - No files or directories have been manipulated manually - BackupPC is almost the only task running on my backup server (there should be no side effects from other services; no user is normally working on that machine) - the file system has about 1.6 TB at a usage of 65% (this rate was never exceeded) - the system had no crash (uptime is 217 days, since setup of BackupPC). - /vol/bpc4 is a mount point of an ext4 file system (normally very reliable) - Kernel 4.1.39, OpenSuSE 42.1 - not really outdated Any advice to repair this error is highly appretiated. Best regards Torsten Finke -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Torsten Finke f...@igh.de Ingenieurgemeinschaft IgH Gesellschaft für Ingenieurleistungen mbH Heinz-Bäcker-Str. 34 D-45356 Essen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ 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/