Mark Murawski wrote at about 14:29:44 -0400 on Thursday, November 3, 2022: > Hi Christopher, > > Thanks for the kind response. > > I found the possibly culprit log entry that I attached to this thread > just earlier. > 2022-11-03 08:08:49 Can't run BackupPC_zipCreate while BackupPC_dump > is running on host xyz
You think???? Log seems pretty clear. Might be a good idea to look at the logs *before* bothering us with likely phantom bugs. > > Thanks for the note on file storage. The empty paths got me really > worked up and panicked that we had no backups. Perhaps I remembered > incorrectly from the last time I touched the filesystem about where this > stuff is stored. It was a really scary and strange behavior to download > an empty zip file as well as an empty tar file when I tried to restore. > > It could be an artifact of the version I'm running (4.4.0), or maybe > it's a lack of error checking or a bug that allows a download of an > empty zip with no error or warnings about the cause to the user. Or more likely it could be an "artifact" of you not taking the minimum effort of reading the documentation and looking at the log file. This seems much more likely than there being a "bug" in the program. > > I'm going to monitor this and collect some more details and see if this > issue is still happening after all backup jobs are complete. > Wise words to collect some more details before claiming likely spurious bugs. > > > On 11/3/22 13:26, Christopher Diekkamp wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > > > It is normal that there are no files. The files are in the pool or > > cpool, not the host folder. > > > > But why you are getting an empty file from the restore is not clear. > > Please help us helping you and provide logs from the backup you try to > > restore and some general infos about your setup. > > > > Cheers > > Christopher > > > > > > > > Am 3. November 2022 16:22:00 UTC schrieb Mark Murawski > > <markm-li...@intellasoft.net>: > > > > Hello! > > > > > > This is the most recently finished full backup [51] for > > /etc/ssl/private > > > > > > > > > > When I restore or download this file it's 0 bytes! Not the > > reported 1428 > > > > > > And this is my backup path on the backuppc > > > > > > /home/backuppc/pc/comm-nyc1.somethingorother.local/51/f%2f/fetc/fssl/fprivate > > total 24K > > drwxr-x--- 5 backuppc backuppc 6 Oct 1 03:24 . > > drwxr-x--- 4 backuppc backuppc 5 Oct 1 03:24 .. > > -rw-r----- 1 backuppc backuppc 0 Oct 1 03:24 > > attrib_ee15c72043d4a708b79599530373a35b > > drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 3 Oct 1 03:24 fcertbot-renew.d > > drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 2 Oct 1 03:24 fold > > drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 3 Oct 1 03:24 fselfsigned > > [root@BackupPC > > > > /home/backuppc/pc/comm-nyc1.somethingorother.local/51/f%2f/fetc/fssl/fprivate]# > > > > > > There's no files in there!! Just directories! Everything is missing > > > > And it looks like the *entire* backup system looks like this. I > > didn't even know that my backups are completely broken and missing > > all files. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BackupPC-users mailing list > > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > > Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > > Project:https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
