Hi there, On Tue, 7 Oct 2025, Jamie Burchell wrote:
Out of the blue on the 24th September, my log showed: ... ... 2025-09-24 01:02:30 admin1 : BackupPC_refCountUpdate: missing pool file ee88a6fce8449682d6b4465f89b447ec count 19 2025-09-24 01:03:26 admin1 : BackupPC_refCountUpdate total errors: 9 ... Logs prior to this show no missing pool files and logs after this show a decreasing number of missing files. Only one has remained: ... a06340ddb577fd02a04bda2998a8d246 ... Curious which backup this pertains to, I found and run the script mentioned ... No log file is created and I cannot find a file named poolCnt.1.9f: $ ls /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/*/*/refCnt/poolCnt $ ls: cannot access '/var/lib/BackupPC/pc/*/*/refCnt/poolCnt': No such file or directory ...
Even if there were such files, your ls command wouldn't list them because it looks for files named 'poolCnt' not 'poolCnt*'. :( I recommend getting the hang of the 'find' utility, but be warned that in my experience it's an acquired taste. You could always pipe the output of ls -lR into a pager (or grep) but the right utility will be more efficient.
I also can?t see what caused this to happen in the first place. ... Can anyone give any insight in to what is going on here ...
Did a machine experience a power failure, crash, or something like that? Perhaps someone restarted BackupPC at an inconvenient time? Did you experiment with compression? Manually fiddle with the pool?
... how I might be able to find out which file is missing?
BackupPC_poolCntPrint may give some useful information, see e.g. https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/36379446/ The syntax isn't always obvious so here's an example using BackupPC_ls much as Craig suggests in his post linked above, to list md5sums on a box backed up here: backuppc@server:$ /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_ls -R -h host44 -n 2072 -s Config / | head /: -rw------- 0/0 0 2013-06-27 13:09:27 /.pwd.lock (d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e) drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 2021-09-03 14:52:44 /ConsoleKit/ -rw-r--r-- 0/0 1467 2019-01-18 15:26:02 /GeoIP.conf (fe5e3fdcd6ad284bb57e63fe41f4e553) drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 2015-05-03 19:19:43 /ImageMagick/ drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 2024-03-20 07:44:44 /ImageMagick-6/ -rw-r--r-- 0/0 4954 2021-01-25 18:10:07 /Muttrc (6793ae4ed35d7fa37a57e2b1fd1507e8) [very big snip] You'd grep your output for a06340ddb577fd02a04bda2998a8d246. There might be more scripts kicking around on the mailing list to do things like this, I can't recall, but sometimes random scripts need bringing up to date. So unless you like puzzles I'd recommend using the tools provided before going off the reservation. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
