[BackupPC-users] What is the meaning of repeated, max chain and max links in the logfile?
Hello, Every day I get a message in __LOGDIR__/LOG: 2009-08-12 02:35:49 Cpool is 322.19GB, 1142028 files (860 repeated, 31 max chain, 11424 max links), 4369 directories What is the meaning of: repeated max chain max links Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Delete a file permanently
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backuppc at kosowsky.org writes: The hard link issue has to do with hard links in the *source* not hard links in the backup (The BackupPC_deleteFile.pl program would be useless if it couldn't deal with BackupPC's own hard link structure). Sounds great Jeffrey! Do you mind sending me your script so that I can try it? Thanx! -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. This is part of the log file for host steve: 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Rename /media/disk/pc/steve/new - /media/disk/pc/steve/151 failed 2009-08-12 05:00:06 full backup complete, 388335 files, 0 bytes, 2 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 2 other) 2009-08-12 05:00:06 full backup 151 complete, 388335 files, 0 bytes, 2 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 2 other) Apart from the fact that the backup seems to have started twice (Maybe just logged twice?) everything looks OK but then In the server log file I get this: 2009-08-12 01:00:06 Started full backup on steve (pid=2644, share=/) 2009-08-12 01:06:15 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail 2009-08-12 01:06:16 Finished admin1 (BackupPC_nightly 128 255) 2009-08-12 01:06:36 Finished admin (BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127) 2009-08-12 01:06:36 Pool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB 2009-08-12 01:06:36 Pool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 max links), 1 directories 2009-08-12 01:06:36 Cpool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB 2009-08-12 01:06:36 Cpool is 111.15GB, 364467 files (21648 repeated, 10 max chain, 793 max links), 4369 directories 2009-08-12 02:00:00 Next wakeup is 2009-08-12 03:00:00 2009-08-12 03:00:01 Next wakeup is 2009-08-12 04:00:00 2009-08-12 04:00:00 Next wakeup is 2009-08-12 05:00:00 2009-08-12 05:00:01 Next wakeup is 2009-08-12 06:00:00 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Finished full backup on steve 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Running BackupPC_link steve (pid=8901) 2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml, b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1) followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different files What is going on here? Thanks, Steve -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 08:49:23 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. This is part of the log file for host steve: 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Rename /media/disk/pc/steve/new - /media/disk/pc/steve/151 failed 2009-08-12 05:00:06 full backup complete, 388335 files, 0 bytes, 2 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 2 other) 2009-08-12 05:00:06 full backup 151 complete, 388335 files, 0 bytes, 2 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 2 other) Apart from the fact that the backup seems to have started twice (Maybe just logged twice?) everything looks OK but then In the server log file I get this: 2009-08-12 01:00:06 Started full backup on steve (pid=2644, share=/) 2009-08-12 01:06:15 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail 2009-08-12 01:06:16 Finished admin1 (BackupPC_nightly 128 255) 2009-08-12 01:06:36 Finished admin (BackupPC_nightly -m 0 127) 2009-08-12 01:06:36 Pool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB 2009-08-12 01:06:36 Pool is 0.00GB, 0 files (0 repeated, 0 max chain, 0 max links), 1 directories 2009-08-12 01:06:36 Cpool nightly clean removed 0 files of size 0.00GB 2009-08-12 01:06:36 Cpool is 111.15GB, 364467 files (21648 repeated, 10 max chain, 793 max links), 4369 directories 2009-08-12 02:00:00 Next wakeup is 2009-08-12 03:00:00 2009-08-12 03:00:01 Next wakeup is 2009-08-12 04:00:00 2009-08-12 04:00:00 Next wakeup is 2009-08-12 05:00:00 2009-08-12 05:00:01 Next wakeup is 2009-08-12 06:00:00 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Finished full backup on steve 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Running BackupPC_link steve (pid=8901) 2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml, b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1) followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different files What is going on here? Error -3 means that calling the perl function link (between a file in the pool and a name in the pc tree) failed. Try manually doing something like the following from the command line: link b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3 /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml Potential reasons: - Files are on different filesystems - File system you are using doesn't allow hard links (what filesystem are you using) - Pool file somehow got erased before MakeFileLink was called or pc tree got erased - File system full (?) I guess I would ask what have you changed lately either for BackupPC specifically or on your setup in general? Thanks, Steve -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 08:49:23 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. ... 05:00:06 Running BackupPC_link steve (pid=8901) 2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml, b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1) followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different files What is going on here? Error -3 means that calling the perl function link (between a file in the pool and a name in the pc tree) failed. Try manually doing something like the following from the command line: link b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3 /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml Where do I need to be to run this? Potential reasons: - Files are on different filesystems - File system you are using doesn't allow hard links (what filesystem are you using) # mount ... /dev/sdd2 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal) ... - Pool file somehow got erased before MakeFileLink was called or pc tree got erased - File system full (?) From logwatch: - Disk Space Begin FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 143G 57G 78G 43% / /dev/sdb1 190M 21M 160M 12% /boot /dev/sda1 112G 69G 44G 61% /mnt/c_drive /dev/sdc1 7.6G 783M 6.9G 11% /media/UDISK /dev/sdd1 466G 80M 466G 1% /media/WINDOWS_BACUP /dev/sdd2 459G 30G 406G 7% /media/disk -- Disk Space End - so plenty of space! I guess I would ask what have you changed lately either for BackupPC specifically or on your setup in general? The backup drive is a 1TB external USB and my computer is getting a little long in the tooth and the BIOS won't boot if I power on with it connected. So I get lazy and don't always plug it in and restart the backuppc service. What has changed is that I'm being more diligent in making my backups and perhaps more significantly, I have recently upgraded from F9 to F10. Thanks, Steve -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:19:47 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. This is part of the log file for host steve: 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Rename /media/disk/pc/steve/new - /media/disk/pc/steve/151 failed Out of inodes? Check with 'df -i'. # df -i FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 38502400 300300 382021001% / /dev/sdb150200 40 501601% /boot tmpfs 129178 2 1291761% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 45944516 79740 458647761% /mnt/c_drive /dev/sdc10 0 0- /media/UDISK /dev/sdd1 488231440 23 488231417 1% /media/WINDOWS_BACUP /dev/sdd2 61063168 790151 602730172% /media/disk No problems there but thanks for the suggestion. Steve. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
Steve Blackwell wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:19:47 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. This is part of the log file for host steve: 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Rename /media/disk/pc/steve/new - /media/disk/pc/steve/151 failed Out of inodes? Check with 'df -i'. # df -i FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 38502400 300300 382021001% / /dev/sdb150200 40 501601% /boot tmpfs 129178 2 1291761% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 45944516 79740 458647761% /mnt/c_drive /dev/sdc10 0 0- /media/UDISK /dev/sdd1 488231440 23 488231417 1% /media/WINDOWS_BACUP /dev/sdd2 61063168 790151 602730172% /media/disk No problems there but thanks for the suggestion. Can you 'mv /media/disk/pc/steve/new /media/disk/pc/steve/151' as the backuppc user? Also, look at the output of 'dmesg' - you might have physical disk errors. If this is a packaged (rpm) install, did you follow the wiki instructions for moving the storage location? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] Cannot get tarCreate to work manually
I am setting up a secondary backup server that will backup the contents of our BackupPC server. My solution is to use tarCreate to create a tar file which I will then rsync to the 2nd backup server. I cannot get the tarCreate command to work. I want to check the status and see what it is going to create, I type: /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h hostname -n -1 -l -s usr / and I get: No language setting BackupPC::Lib-new failed -- Jeremy Mann jer...@biochem.uthscsa.edu University of Texas Health Science Center Bioinformatics Core Facility http://www.bioinformatics.uthscsa.edu Phone: (210) 567-2672 -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
Les Mikesell wrote at about 10:19:47 -0500 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: Steve Blackwell wrote: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. This is part of the log file for host steve: 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Rename /media/disk/pc/steve/new - /media/disk/pc/steve/151 failed Out of inodes? Check with 'df -i'. Don't hard links re-use the same inode? (remember it fails on the 'link' command) -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 11:18:36 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 08:49:23 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. ... 05:00:06 Running BackupPC_link steve (pid=8901) 2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml, b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1) followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different files What is going on here? Error -3 means that calling the perl function link (between a file in the pool and a name in the pc tree) failed. Try manually doing something like the following from the command line: link b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3 /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml Where do I need to be to run this? From the command line anywhere. Just type the command as-is. Actually type it as: su -u backuppc link ... so that it runs as user 'backuppc' If it works, you can undo it by typing: rm /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml (assuming the file didn't exist previously) Potential reasons: - Files are on different filesystems - File system you are using doesn't allow hard links (what filesystem are you using) # mount ... /dev/sdd2 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal) ... - Pool file somehow got erased before MakeFileLink was called or pc tree got erased - File system full (?) From logwatch: - Disk Space Begin FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 143G 57G 78G 43% / /dev/sdb1 190M 21M 160M 12% /boot /dev/sda1 112G 69G 44G 61% /mnt/c_drive /dev/sdc1 7.6G 783M 6.9G 11% /media/UDISK /dev/sdd1 466G 80M 466G 1% /media/WINDOWS_BACUP /dev/sdd2 459G 30G 406G 7% /media/disk -- Disk Space End - so plenty of space! I guess I would ask what have you changed lately either for BackupPC specifically or on your setup in general? The backup drive is a 1TB external USB and my computer is getting a little long in the tooth and the BIOS won't boot if I power on with it connected. So I get lazy and don't always plug it in and restart the backuppc service. What has changed is that I'm being more diligent in making my backups and perhaps more significantly, I have recently upgraded from F9 to F10. Thanks, Steve -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
[BackupPC-users] How to run 2 instances?
Here is the scenario I want to set up:
instance #1: normal - backup of user PC's and some of localhost to
local server. Running now, very happy.
instance #2: What I want. use sshfs to mount a remote drive (presumably
through $conf{DumpPreUserCmd} ??), use BackupPC to backup specific files
from localhost to this remote drive
userpcs - backuppc (local)
backuppc (local) - remote drive mounted via sshfs
Previously I was using Dirvish to accomplish instance #2 via an rsync
pull, but that machine is no longer available (and the USB drive failed
too.)
All i can do is a push to the remote drive; that server cannot run any
server software.
Is this feasible to accomplish? I've looked briefly at the source code,
and the code that checks the PID writes the PID status to very defined
places. Wasn't sure how to go about changing things without breaking
them (not a perl guy - yet.)
thanks
Jim Ostrosky
--
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day
trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on
what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with
Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july
___
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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:24:04 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 11:18:36 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 08:49:23 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. ... 05:00:06 Running BackupPC_link steve (pid=8901) 2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml, b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1) followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different files What is going on here? Error -3 means that calling the perl function link (between a file in the pool and a name in the pc tree) failed. Try manually doing something like the following from the command line: link b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3 /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml Where do I need to be to run this? From the command line anywhere. Just type the command as-is. Actually type it as: su -u backuppc link ... so that it runs as user 'backuppc' If it works, you can undo it by typing: rm /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml (assuming the file didn't exist previously) su doesn't have a -u option. # su --help Usage: su [OPTION]... [-] [USER [ARG]...] Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER. -, -l, --login make the shell a login shell -c, --command=COMMANDpass a single COMMAND to the shell with -c --session-command=COMMANDpass a single COMMAND to the shell with -c and do not create a new session -f, --fast pass -f to the shell (for csh or tcsh) -m, --preserve-environment do not reset environment variables -p same as -m -s, --shell=SHELLrun SHELL if /etc/shells allows it --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit A mere - implies -l. If USER not given, assume root. Report bugs to bug-coreut...@gnu.org. # su backuppc link b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3 /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml This account is currently not available. # link b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3 /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml link: cannot create link `/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml' to `b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3': No such file or directory Steve -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:00:19 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:19:47 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. This is part of the log file for host steve: 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Rename /media/disk/pc/steve/new - /media/disk/pc/steve/151 failed Out of inodes? Check with 'df -i'. # df -i FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 38502400 300300 382021001% / /dev/sdb150200 40 501601% /boot tmpfs 129178 2 1291761% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 45944516 79740 458647761% /mnt/c_drive /dev/sdc10 0 0- /media/UDISK /dev/sdd1 488231440 23 488231417 1% /media/WINDOWS_BACUP /dev/sdd2 61063168 790151 602730172% /media/disk No problems there but thanks for the suggestion. Can you 'mv /media/disk/pc/steve/151' as the backuppc user? Also, look at the output of 'dmesg' - you might have physical disk errors. If this is a packaged (rpm) install, did you follow the wiki instructions for moving the storage location? There is no file /media/disk/pc/steve/new. # ls -l /media/disk/pc/steve total 15388 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-04 17:03 146 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-05 20:18 147 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-08 18:31 148 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-11 02:10 150 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-12 05:13 151 -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 802 2009-08-12 05:21 backups -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 799 2009-08-12 05:21 backups.old -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 0 2008-07-26 19:00 LOCK -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 585 2009-01-31 20:09 LOG.012009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 963 2009-02-28 20:40 LOG.022009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 412 2009-03-23 20:14 LOG.032009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 797 2009-04-26 20:09 LOG.042009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 172 2009-06-28 15:30 LOG.062009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 959 2008-08-31 20:05 LOG.082008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc2308 2009-08-12 05:00 LOG.082009 -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 748 2008-09-22 20:07 LOG.092008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 662 2008-10-31 20:11 LOG.102008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 625 2008-11-30 05:27 LOG.112008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 143 2008-12-09 05:05 LOG.122008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc apache 290 2008-07-30 20:48 RestoreInfo.0 -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 200 2008-07-30 20:48 RestoreLOG.0.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 36 2008-07-30 20:48 restores -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 4373346 2009-08-04 17:03 XferLOG.146.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 439712 2009-08-05 20:18 XferLOG.147.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 619036 2009-08-08 18:31 XferLOG.148.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 1064831 2009-08-10 02:31 XferLOG.149.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 848135 2009-08-11 02:10 XferLOG.150.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 8149788 2009-08-12 05:00 XferLOG.151.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 264 2008-07-29 12:25 XferLOG.bad.z.old Steve -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
Steve Blackwell wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:00:19 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:19:47 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. This is part of the log file for host steve: 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Rename /media/disk/pc/steve/new - /media/disk/pc/steve/151 failed Out of inodes? Check with 'df -i'. # df -i FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 38502400 300300 382021001% / /dev/sdb150200 40 501601% /boot tmpfs 129178 2 1291761% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 45944516 79740 458647761% /mnt/c_drive /dev/sdc10 0 0- /media/UDISK /dev/sdd1 488231440 23 488231417 1% /media/WINDOWS_BACUP /dev/sdd2 61063168 790151 602730172% /media/disk No problems there but thanks for the suggestion. Can you 'mv /media//disk/pc/steve/new /media/disk/pc/steve/151' as the backuppc user? Also, look at the output of 'dmesg' - you might have physical disk errors. If this is a packaged (rpm) install, did you follow the wiki instructions for moving the storage location? There is no file /media/disk/pc/steve/new. # ls -l /media/disk/pc/steve total 15388 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-04 17:03 146 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-05 20:18 147 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-08 18:31 148 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-11 02:10 150 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-12 05:13 151 -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 802 2009-08-12 05:21 backups -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 799 2009-08-12 05:21 backups.old -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 0 2008-07-26 19:00 LOCK -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 585 2009-01-31 20:09 LOG.012009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 963 2009-02-28 20:40 LOG.022009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 412 2009-03-23 20:14 LOG.032009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 797 2009-04-26 20:09 LOG.042009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 172 2009-06-28 15:30 LOG.062009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 959 2008-08-31 20:05 LOG.082008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc2308 2009-08-12 05:00 LOG.082009 -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 748 2008-09-22 20:07 LOG.092008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 662 2008-10-31 20:11 LOG.102008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 625 2008-11-30 05:27 LOG.112008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 143 2008-12-09 05:05 LOG.122008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc apache 290 2008-07-30 20:48 RestoreInfo.0 -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 200 2008-07-30 20:48 RestoreLOG.0.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 36 2008-07-30 20:48 restores -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 4373346 2009-08-04 17:03 XferLOG.146.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 439712 2009-08-05 20:18 XferLOG.147.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 619036 2009-08-08 18:31 XferLOG.148.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 1064831 2009-08-10 02:31 XferLOG.149.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 848135 2009-08-11 02:10 XferLOG.150.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 8149788 2009-08-12 05:00 XferLOG.151.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 264 2008-07-29 12:25 XferLOG.bad.z.old So a subsequent backup has completed? Or was the 151 directory there before? If it wasn't there and that rename failed, there would be an obvious reason for the subsequent link failures involving things under the 151 directory. -- Les Mikesell -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 13:27:17 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:24:04 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 11:18:36 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 08:49:23 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. ... 05:00:06 Running BackupPC_link steve (pid=8901) 2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml, b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1) followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different files What is going on here? Error -3 means that calling the perl function link (between a file in the pool and a name in the pc tree) failed. Try manually doing something like the following from the command line: link b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3 /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml Where do I need to be to run this? From the command line anywhere. Just type the command as-is. Actually type it as: su -u backuppc link ... so that it runs as user 'backuppc' If it works, you can undo it by typing: rm /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml (assuming the file didn't exist previously) su doesn't have a -u option. run: sudo -u backuppc or su backuppc -c link... -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:54:05 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:00:19 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:19:47 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. This is part of the log file for host steve: 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Rename /media/disk/pc/steve/new - /media/disk/pc/steve/151 failed Out of inodes? Check with 'df -i'. # df -i FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 38502400 300300 382021001% / /dev/sdb150200 40 501601% /boot tmpfs 129178 2 1291761% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 45944516 79740 458647761% /mnt/c_drive /dev/sdc10 0 0- /media/UDISK /dev/sdd1 488231440 23 488231417 1% /media/WINDOWS_BACUP /dev/sdd2 61063168 790151 602730172% /media/disk No problems there but thanks for the suggestion. Can you 'mv /media//disk/pc/steve/new /media/disk/pc/steve/151' as the backuppc user? Also, look at the output of 'dmesg' - you might have physical disk errors. If this is a packaged (rpm) install, did you follow the wiki instructions for moving the storage location? There is no file /media/disk/pc/steve/new. # ls -l /media/disk/pc/steve total 15388 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-04 17:03 146 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-05 20:18 147 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-08 18:31 148 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-11 02:10 150 drwxr-x--- 3 backuppc backuppc4096 2009-08-12 05:13 151 -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 802 2009-08-12 05:21 backups -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 799 2009-08-12 05:21 backups.old -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 0 2008-07-26 19:00 LOCK -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 585 2009-01-31 20:09 LOG.012009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 963 2009-02-28 20:40 LOG.022009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 412 2009-03-23 20:14 LOG.032009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 797 2009-04-26 20:09 LOG.042009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 172 2009-06-28 15:30 LOG.062009.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 959 2008-08-31 20:05 LOG.082008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc2308 2009-08-12 05:00 LOG.082009 -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 748 2008-09-22 20:07 LOG.092008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 662 2008-10-31 20:11 LOG.102008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 625 2008-11-30 05:27 LOG.112008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 143 2008-12-09 05:05 LOG.122008.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc apache 290 2008-07-30 20:48 Restoreinfo.0 -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 200 2008-07-30 20:48 RestoreLOG.0.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 36 2008-07-30 20:48 restores -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 4373346 2009-08-04 17:03 XferLOG.146.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 439712 2009-08-05 20:18 XferLOG.147.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 619036 2009-08-08 18:31 XferLOG.148.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 1064831 2009-08-10 02:31 XferLOG.149.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 848135 2009-08-11 02:10 XferLOG.150.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 8149788 2009-08-12 05:00 XferLOG.151.z -rw-r- 1 backuppc backuppc 264 2008-07-29 12:25 XferLOG.bad.z.old So a subsequent backup has completed? Or was the 151 directory there before? If it wasn't there and that rename failed, there would be an obvious reason for the subsequent link failures involving things under the 151 directory. As I said in my original e-mail: 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 01:00:06 full backup started for directory / 2009-08-12 05:00:06 Rename /media/disk/pc/steve/new - /media/disk/pc/steve/151 failed 2009-08-12 05:00:06 full backup complete, 388335 files, 0 bytes, 2 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 2 other) 2009-08-12 05:00:06 full backup 151 complete, 388335 files, 0 bytes, 2 xferErrs (0 bad files, 0 bad shares, 2 other) Apart from the fact that the backup seems to have started twice (Maybe just logged twice?)... So perhaps backuppc is somehow scheduling the backup to run twice at the same time but then if the rename of 'new' to '151' is failing, what is creating '151'? Does the first backup do the rename so that 'new' does not exist for the 2nd backup? That might explain things but then how is the backup scheduled twice? Confused Steve -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial.
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:18:04 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 13:27:17 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:24:04 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 11:18:36 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: Steve Blackwell wrote at about 08:49:23 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another instance. ... 05:00:06 Running BackupPC_link steve (pid=8901) 2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml, b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1) followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different files What is going on here? Error -3 means that calling the perl function link (between a file in the pool and a name in the pc tree) failed. Try manually doing something like the following from the command line: link b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3 /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml Where do I need to be to run this? From the command line anywhere. Just type the command as-is. Actually type it as: su -u backuppc link ... so that it runs as user 'backuppc' If it works, you can undo it by typing: rm /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml (assuming the file didn't exist previously) su doesn't have a -u option. run: sudo -u backuppc or su backuppc -c link... # sudo -u backuppc link b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3 /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml link: cannot create link `/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml' to `b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3': No such file or directory Jeffrey, I'm now thinking that two backups have somehow been scheduled at the same. See the Les Miskell thread. Steve -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
Hi, On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:49, Steve Blackwellzep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: 2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml, b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1) followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different files What is going on here? I used to have exactly this problem. I guess you changed TopDir in your config.pl file, right? Well, BackupPC 3.1.0 has a bug in that TopDir change will not affect the pool and cpool directories, so it will try to create a hardlink in /var/lib/BackupPC for a file in /media/disk, which are in different filesystems, so it fails. See this post for a patch that can be used to fix this issue: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=20080808032558.GG13869%40gratch.parplies.de Alternatively, you may remove the /var/lib/BackupPC directory and create a symbolic link to /media/disk in its place. You can also upgrade your setup to 3.2.0 beta, which has this bug already fixed. HTH, Filipe -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Revamping the Wiki
Hello, dan wrote: The wiki was made in a very ad-hoc manner. When the discussion hit the mailing list there wasnt much leadership.. backuppc tends to be mailing list driven rather than forums or wikis. I've just look at the (new) backuppc wiki located at: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/ and was shocked ... where is all the content? I've put in some hours of work, describing how to setup cygwin, ssh, rsyncd etc. to backup windows clients with backuppc. Since I like to write short howto's for myself, when researching stuff, I thought I can use the backuppc wiki and give something back to the community. But its bad if the information can't be retrieved because of switching to another wiki platform ... :-/ So where is the old content?! It's true that BackupPC tends to be mailinglist driven, but for people like myself who like to research what is possible and if a problem has been solved already a wiki is much more user-friendly. I like the the idea of something like a backuppc cookbook. Question: Where can I find the old content? I could than start from scratch and rebuild the wiki, maybe with the focus for different kind of users: 1) beginners (they will mostly _not_ mailinglists) - the cookbook 2) experienced users looking for new infrastructure ideas and use cases 3) ? Kind regards from B erlin - P hil -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Revamping the Wiki
Hey Cody, Cody Dunne wrote: For those of you interested, you can see the current structure of the wiki at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/files/BPCWikiStructure.png gives me a 404: Page Not Found. I haven't heard from anyone interested meeting yet, but I'll still plan on having it for anyone who wants to show up. I really would like to throw in some work hours for the wiki. Maybe you me and others that are willing to contribute can work on something like a sitemap or structure, so that others can enhance it and know where they can put their information into. I guess you made something like this in your BPCWikiStructure file? Why Office and PNG, lets made a wiki page (of course :-) - P hil -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Revamping the Wiki
You should be able to access it now. It was from 2/13/2009, so it may be a little off by now. Cody phil wrote: Hey Cody, Cody Dunne wrote: For those of you interested, you can see the current structure of the wiki at: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~cdunne/files/BPCWikiStructure.png gives me a 404: Page Not Found. I haven't heard from anyone interested meeting yet, but I'll still plan on having it for anyone who wants to show up. I really would like to throw in some work hours for the wiki. Maybe you me and others that are willing to contribute can work on something like a sitemap or structure, so that others can enhance it and know where they can put their information into. I guess you made something like this in your BPCWikiStructure file? Why Office and PNG, lets made a wiki page (of course :-) - P hil -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 14:33:54 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:18:04 -0400
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 13:27:17 -0400 on Wednesday, August
12, 2009:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:24:04 -0400
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 11:18:36 -0400 on Wednesday,
August 12, 2009:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 08:49:23 -0400 on Wednesday,
August 12, 2009:
Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is
another instance.
...
05:00:06 Running BackupPC_link steve (pid=8901)
2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when
calling
MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml,
b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1)
followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different files
What is going on here?
Error -3 means that calling the perl function link (between
a file in the pool and a name in the pc tree) failed.
Try manually doing something like the following from the
command line: link
b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml
Where do I need to be to run this?
From the command line anywhere. Just type the command as-is.
Actually type it as:
su -u backuppc link ...
so that it runs as user 'backuppc'
If it works, you can undo it by typing:
rm
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml
(assuming the file didn't exist previously)
su doesn't have a -u option.
run: sudo -u backuppc
or su backuppc -c link...
# sudo -u backuppc link
b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml
link: cannot create link
`/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml'
to `b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3': No such file or directory
Jeffrey, I'm now thinking that two backups have somehow been scheduled
at the same. See the Les Miskell thread.
Steve
I don't know. I am perplexed since the code that is creating the error
code '3' is as follows (from MakeFileLink in Lib.pm):
return -1 if ( !-f $name );
for ( $i = -1 ; ; $i++ ) {
return -2 if ( !defined($rawFile = $bpc-MD52Path($d,
$compress)) );
$rawFile .= _$i if ( $i = 0 );
if ( -f $rawFile ) {
if ( (stat(_))[3] $bpc-{Conf}{HardLinkMax}
!compare($name, $rawFile) ) {
unlink($name);
return -3 if ( !link($rawFile, $name) );
Now:
$name exists (per the test in the first line)
$rawFile exists (per the test in line 6)
yet the link fails a couple of lines later.
So unless there is an incredibly precise race condition and assuming
links work on your machine, the 'link' in the final line should
succeed. It is hard to believe that there could be a repeatable race
condition with another backup that is so precise that a file exists in
one line and then no longer exists just a couple of simple lines of
perl code later.
I'm still wondering whether there is some problem with
linking/unlinking on your computer. So the problem is either that the
unlink (i.e., delete) fails in the next to last line or the link fails
in the last line. You may also want to look at ownership/permissions
in your pc tree to make sure that the relevant files and directories
are writable by user backuppc.
Also, why don't you try re-running the manual link line that I gave you but
this time link against a known *existing* (random) pool file. Also try
something like:
su backuppc -c touch
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/tempfile
su backuppc -c rm
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/tempfile
This will test user backuppc's ability to create and delete files in
the pc tree where it failed before.
--
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day
trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on
what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with
Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july
___
BackupPC-users mailing list
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
Filipe Brandenburger wrote at about 14:40:34 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009: Hi, On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:49, Steve Blackwellzep...@cfl.rr.com wrote: 2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml, b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1) followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different files What is going on here? I used to have exactly this problem. I guess you changed TopDir in your config.pl file, right? Well, BackupPC 3.1.0 has a bug in that TopDir change will not affect the pool and cpool directories, so it will try to create a hardlink in /var/lib/BackupPC for a file in /media/disk, which are in different filesystems, so it fails. Yes - I had suggested that the problem might be that the pool and pc trees are not on the same filesystem. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
Hi,
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2009-08-12 18:12:09 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users]
100,000+ errors in last nights backup]:
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 14:33:54 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009:
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 11:18:36 -0400 on Wednesday, August
12, 2009:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400 Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Try manually doing something like the following from the
command line: link
b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml
Where do I need to be to run this?
you need to be in $TopDir/cpool/b/3/2 ... or rather, it should be
sudo -u backuppc ln
$TopDir/cpool/b/3/2/b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml
(or use 'link' if you prefer). You need to get $TopDir right though. See
below.
# sudo -u backuppc link
b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml
link: cannot create link
`/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml'
to `b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3': No such file or directory
Yes, most directories won't contain a file with that name ;-).
Jeffrey, I'm now thinking that two backups have somehow been scheduled
at the same. See the Les Miskell thread.
I agree with that except for the name. But I don't think it's the problem, at
least not the one you're looking for. I can't imagine why two backups of the
same host would be scheduled simultaneously, and I don't think it's a good
idea to do so :-). BackupPC doesn't usually do this. Have you changed the code
in any way? Have you seen such a thing happen before?
I don't know. I am perplexed since the code that is creating the error
code '3' is as follows (from MakeFileLink in Lib.pm):
return -1 if ( !-f $name );
for ( $i = -1 ; ; $i++ ) {
return -2 if ( !defined($rawFile = $bpc-MD52Path($d,
$compress)) );
$rawFile .= _$i if ( $i = 0 );
if ( -f $rawFile ) {
if ( (stat(_))[3] $bpc-{Conf}{HardLinkMax}
!compare($name, $rawFile) ) {
unlink($name);
return -3 if ( !link($rawFile, $name) );
Now:
$name exists (per the test in the first line)
$rawFile exists (per the test in line 6)
yet the link fails a couple of lines later.
So unless there is an incredibly precise race condition
Is there such a thing as a precise race condition? If it always happened in
the same order, would it even be a race condition?
and assuming links work on your machine, the 'link' in the final line should
succeed. It is hard to believe that there could be a repeatable race
condition with another backup that is so precise that a file exists in
one line and then no longer exists just a couple of simple lines of
perl code later.
Ah, but it's not just a couple of simple lines of Perl code. Note the
'compare' call in line 8 (File::Compare::compare, if you were wondering),
which will take an arbitrary amount of time (and lead to an arbitrary number
of page faults/task switches, depending only on the size of the files).
But the point really is that between lines *9 and 10* (unlink/link) nothing
significant happens (unless unlink() always leads to a task switch, which I
doubt). Even then, $rawFile continues to -f, and deleting a link and replacing
it with a new link to the same file should succeed any number of times. Only
if interrupted *between unlink and link*, the process *might* find upon being
rescheduled that the link() fails because another process has already created
the file again.
But all of that is really beside the point. Let's take a step back. Where are
we?
We're in BackupPC_link, not in BackupPC_dump. As the log file shows (XferLOG
for host steve), the backup is apparently run twice in parallel, leading to
the failed rename (only one backup can succeed to rename 'new' to '151',
though I'm not sure what will happen to the 'backups' file). The main log file
only indicates one instance of BackupPC_link being run though (and one
instance of BackupPC will never run more than one BackupPC_link command at the
same time in any case).
So, I believe we're back to the issue of what you did wrong when moving
$TopDir. I don't remember reading which version of BackupPC you are using.
What did you do to move $TopDir? Have a look at the old location, wherever
that was. Are there files with recent modification times below the cpool/
directory? Below /media/disk/cpool? BackupPC_nightly reports files there,
but you might have copied them there at some point. If you umount /dev/sdd2,
what's below /media/disk? A cpool/ directory?
You may also want to look at
Re: [BackupPC-users] Switching from gzip to bzip2
Ah - I missed that it was in the Archive-specific configuration section but just noticed it. That makes sense. Incidentally, the '-9' gzip takes a bit more CPU but isn't substantially more effective. Since CPU isn't exactly lacking in this case it is cranked to -9 just to save any disk space possible since it's still not taxing the processors. Nate On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 08:36, Nate Tnaterw...@gmail.com wrote: Will switching from gzip to bzip2 do bad things to the existing cpool? I don't think it's possible to switch to bzip2... BackupPC will use gzip-like compression, which is not exactly like gzip but similar to it. If you have spare CPU and want to compress harder, you can tune the compression level of backups in your config.pl, IIRC it's set to 3 by default, you can use 6 (default for gzip) or 9 (stronger compression) or anything in between, those will use more CPU and compress better. AFAIK, the existing files in your cpool will not be recompressed, so until they are phased out (removed from the original machines) I don't think they will be replaced by a copy that is more compressed... I'm not aware of a script that goes through an existing cpool recompressing the files, but there might indeed be one that does that. HTH, Filipe -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:12:09 -0400
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 14:33:54 -0400 on Wednesday, August
12, 2009:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:18:04 -0400
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 13:27:17 -0400 on Wednesday,
August 12, 2009:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:24:04 -0400
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 11:18:36 -0400 on Wednesday,
August 12, 2009:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Steve Blackwell wrote at about 08:49:23 -0400 on
Wednesday, August 12, 2009:
Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is
another instance.
...
05:00:06 Running BackupPC_link steve (pid=8901)
2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when
calling
MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml,
b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1)
followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different
files
What is going on here?
Error -3 means that calling the perl function link
(between a file in the pool and a name in the pc tree)
failed.
Try manually doing something like the following from
the command line: link
b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml
Where do I need to be to run this?
From the command line anywhere. Just type the command
as-is.
Actually type it as:
su -u backuppc link ...
so that it runs as user 'backuppc'
If it works, you can undo it by typing:
rm
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml
(assuming the file didn't exist previously)
su doesn't have a -u option.
run: sudo -u backuppc
or su backuppc -c link...
# sudo -u backuppc link
b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml
link: cannot create link
`/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml'
to `b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3': No such file or directory
Jeffrey, I'm now thinking that two backups have somehow been
scheduled at the same. See the Les Miskell thread.
Steve
I don't know. I am perplexed since the code that is creating the error
code '3' is as follows (from MakeFileLink in Lib.pm):
return -1 if ( !-f $name );
for ( $i = -1 ; ; $i++ ) {
return -2 if ( !defined($rawFile = $bpc-MD52Path($d,
$compress)) );
$rawFile .= _$i if ( $i = 0 );
if ( -f $rawFile ) {
if ( (stat(_))[3] $bpc-{Conf}{HardLinkMax}
!compare($name, $rawFile) ) {
unlink($name);
return -3 if ( !link($rawFile, $name) );
Now:
$name exists (per the test in the first line)
$rawFile exists (per the test in line 6)
yet the link fails a couple of lines later.
So unless there is an incredibly precise race condition and assuming
links work on your machine, the 'link' in the final line should
succeed. It is hard to believe that there could be a repeatable race
condition with another backup that is so precise that a file exists in
one line and then no longer exists just a couple of simple lines of
perl code later.
I'm still wondering whether there is some problem with
linking/unlinking on your computer. So the problem is either that the
unlink (i.e., delete) fails in the next to last line or the link fails
in the last line. You may also want to look at ownership/permissions
in your pc tree to make sure that the relevant files and directories
are writable by user backuppc.
Also, why don't you try re-running the manual link line that I gave
you but this time link against a known *existing* (random) pool file.
Also try something like:
su backuppc -c
touch
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/tempfile
su backuppc -c
rm
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/tempfile
su backuppc -c doesn't work but...
# sudo -u backuppc
touch
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/tempfile
#
ls
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/tempfile
[BackupPC-users] Please remove me from this list
Please remove me from this list -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Holger Parplies wrote: We're in BackupPC_link, not in BackupPC_dump. As the log file shows (XferLOG for host steve), the backup is apparently run twice in parallel, leading to the failed rename (only one backup can succeed to rename 'new' to '151', though I'm not sure what will happen to the 'backups' file). The main log file only indicates one instance of BackupPC_link being run though (and one instance of BackupPC will never run more than one BackupPC_link command at the same time in any case). I've frequently managed to cause two backuppc_dump's to run in parallel where one was scheduled by backuppc and one was run manually by me from the command line. It would be nice if backuppc_dump could do a simple check to see if the new directory already exists, and if so, simple exit (or error and exit). Mainly I run backups manually so I can see exactly what is happening during the backup and where/why it is failing or taking so long. Sometimes I remember to use the gui to stop backups for that host for a period of time, and again, sometimes that isn't long enough... Regards, Adam -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqDp74ACgkQGyoxogrTyiXEQwCgusv36QQNe2aDmeRhQSix7k9T t8AAnjL/XfeZCeRruovoLvaISc2cLKpE =zeTZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ 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/
