Well, removing the backup has somehow now revealed the file in question: 2025-10-07 18:30:10 BackupPC_backupDelete: removing #1437 2025-10-07 18:30:10 BackupPC_backupDelete: Merge into backup 1436 2025-10-07 18:30:10 Can't read attribute file /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/myhost/1436/f%2fvar%2fwww/freleases/f220/fweb/fapp/flanguages/fplugins/attrib_a06340ddb577fd02a04bda2998a8d246 2025-10-07 18:30:20 bpc_attrib_dirRead: can't open /var/lib/BackupPC//cpool/a0/62/a06340ddb577fd02a04bda2998a8d246 2025-10-07 18:30:22 bpc_attrib_dirRead: can't open /var/lib/BackupPC//cpool/a0/62/a06340ddb577fd02a04bda2998a8d246 2025-10-07 18:30:22 bpc_path_refCountAll: can't read attrib file /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/myhost/1436/f%2fvar%2fwww/freleases/f220/fweb/fapp/flanguages/fplugins/attrib_a06340ddb577fd02a04bda2998a8d246 2025-10-07 18:30:28 BackupPC_refCountUpdate: host dmtt_web got 1 errors (took 7 secs) 2025-10-07 18:30:28 BackupPC_refCountUpdate total errors: 1 2025-10-07 18:30:28 BackupPC_backupDelete: got 2 errors
-----Original Message----- From: Jamie Burchell <[email protected]> Sent: 07 October 2025 18:29 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [BackupPC-users] Missing pool files > Found it with: > # a0 is the first two letters of the hash of the file we are looking for: > a06340ddb577fd02a04bda2998a8d246 > $ find . -name "poolCnt.1.a0" -exec sh -c 'for f; do > /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_poolCntPrint "$f" | grep -q > "a06340ddb577fd02a04bda2998a8d246" && echo "Match: $f"; done' sh {} + Well having apparently found the backup that this file relates to: sudo -ubackuppc ./BackupPC_ls -R -h myhost -n 1437 -s /var/www / | egrep a06340ddb577fd02a04bda2998a8d246 ... returns no results. No results in any share of that backup. -----Original Message----- From: Jamie Burchell <[email protected]> Sent: 07 October 2025 17:26 To: General list for user discussion, questions and support <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [BackupPC-users] Missing pool files Found it with: # a0 is the first two letters of the hash of the file we are looking for: a06340ddb577fd02a04bda2998a8d246 find . -name "poolCnt.1.a0" -exec sh -c 'for f; do /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_poolCntPrint "$f" | grep -q "a06340ddb577fd02a04bda2998a8d246" && echo "Match: $f"; done' sh {} + Thanks for the pointers! -- -----Original Message----- From: G.W. Haywood <[email protected]> Sent: 07 October 2025 14:58 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Missing pool files Hi there, On Tue, 7 Oct 2025, G.W. Haywood wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2025, Jamie Burchell wrote: > > Out of the blue on the 24th September, my log showed: > ... > > > [snip] Oh, I almost forgot: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/How-to-find-which-backups-reference-a-particular-pool-file :) -- 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
