Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 11:33:15PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: > Robin, > > > Nope; I'm a big tab completion user, so I would have seen it. ;) > > > > $ ls -li /backups/cpool/1/5/c/15c0e4b08058ef3704b8fc24887e2bcc* > > 255523133 -rw-r- 3 backuppc backuppc 27 Nov 22 19:33 > > /backups/cpool/

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-06 Thread Craig Barratt
Robin, > Nope; I'm a big tab completion user, so I would have seen it. ;) > > $ ls -li /backups/cpool/1/5/c/15c0e4b08058ef3704b8fc24887e2bcc* > 255523133 -rw-r- 3 backuppc backuppc 27 Nov 22 19:33 > /backups/cpool/1/5/c/15c0e4b08058ef3704b8fc24887e2bcc Hmmm. I'm not familiar with Jeffrey'

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 10:46:12PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: > Robin, > > > ls -li /backups/cpool/1/5/c/15c0e4b08058ef3704b8fc24887e2bcc > > /backups/pc/foo--tm50-e00145--tm50-s00339---shared/47/f%2f/fshared/ffoo/fpurchase_order_assets/fbatch_7813/f7105620_done.txt > > > > *BUT*. Not linked.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-06 Thread Craig Barratt
Robin, > ls -li /backups/cpool/1/5/c/15c0e4b08058ef3704b8fc24887e2bcc > /backups/pc/foo--tm50-e00145--tm50-s00339---shared/47/f%2f/fshared/ffoo/fpurchase_order_assets/fbatch_7813/f7105620_done.txt > > *BUT*. Not linked. > > $ ls -li /backups/cpool/1/5/c/15c0e4b08058ef3704b8fc24887e2bcc > /bac

Re: [BackupPC-users] Another jLib/fixLinks issue.

2010-12-06 Thread Craig Barratt
Robin, > That's a bunch of files with *thirty two thousand* hard links. > Apparently that's a limit of some kind. Yes, see $Conf{HardLinkMax}. Certain file systems allow more, but several file systems have a limit of 32,000 (strangely not 2^15-1). Craig

Re: [BackupPC-users] jLib bug with md5sum stuff

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 12:32:01PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > substr outside of string at /usr/local/lib64/BackupPC/jLib.pm line 162. > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > /usr/local/lib64/BackupPC/jLib.pm line 162. > > The line(s) in question: > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 01:17:43PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > So, yeah. More than one link, matches something in the pool, but > not actually linked to it. Isn't that *awesome*? ;'( > > I very much want BackupPC_fixLinks to deal with this, and I'm > trying to modify it to do that now.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Another jLib/fixLinks issue.

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:40:04PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > This is *fascinating*. > > >From the actually-fixing-stuff part of the run, I get: > > ERROR: > "tm50-s00292__nfs/68/f%2f/fshared/fthepoint/fsite_images/f0042/f4097/fMULTI_medium.jpg" > - Too many links if added to "59c43b51d

[BackupPC-users] Another jLib/fixLinks issue.

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
This is *fascinating*. >From the actually-fixing-stuff part of the run, I get: ERROR: "tm50-s00292__nfs/68/f%2f/fshared/fthepoint/fsite_images/f0042/f4097/fMULTI_medium.jpg" - Too many links if added to "59c43b51dbdd9031ba54971e359cdcec" to which I say "lolwut?" and investigate. $ ls -li /b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:48:04PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 10:37:52 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010: > > > > So I'm writing a script to transfer a client from one host to > > another, using tarPCCopy, and I'm getting messages like this: > > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: "finish what you're doing and then stop"

2010-12-06 Thread Pavel Hofma
Dne 6.12.2010 20:02, Robin Lee Powell napsal(a): > > It would be really nice to be able to tell the backuppc server to > finish all current backups without queuing any others, and then > stop/exit completely. > > I know I can sort-of do this by disabling backups for each host, but > that's a really

Re: [BackupPC-users] jLib.pm question

2010-12-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/6/10 2:43 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >> I'm not sure what you mean... the program should work with any >> number of links. If there is a missing use case, please explain so >> I can fix it. > > I have files with 3+ links that, according to BackupPC_tarPCCopy, > aren't actually linked into

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:48:04PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 10:37:52 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010: > > > > So I'm writing a script to transfer a client from one host to > > another, using tarPCCopy, and I'm getting messages like this: > > > >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-06 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 10:37:52 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010: > > So I'm writing a script to transfer a client from one host to > another, using tarPCCopy, and I'm getting messages like this: > > Can't find > foo--tm50-e00145--tm50-s00339---shared/47/f%2f/fshared/ffoo/fpurc

Re: [BackupPC-users] jLib.pm question

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:33:52PM -0500, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 11:28:56 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010: > > > > I've locally modified BackupPC_fixLinks to check files even if > > they have more than one link. > > I'm not sure what you mean... the prog

Re: [BackupPC-users] jLib.pm question

2010-12-06 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Robin Lee Powell wrote at about 11:28:56 -0800 on Monday, December 6, 2010: > > I've locally modified BackupPC_fixLinks to check files even if they > have more than one link. I'm not sure what you mean... the program should work with any number of links. If there is a missing use case, please

[BackupPC-users] jLib bug with md5sum stuff

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
substr outside of string at /usr/local/lib64/BackupPC/jLib.pm line 162. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/lib64/BackupPC/jLib.pm line 162. The line(s) in question: $datalast = substr($data[($i-1)%2], $rsize, _128KB-$rsize)

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 10:37:52AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > So I'm writing a script to transfer a client from one host to > another, using tarPCCopy, and I'm getting messages like this: > > Can't find > foo--tm50-e00145--tm50-s00339---shared/47/f%2f/fshared/ffoo/fpurchase_order_asset

[BackupPC-users] jLib.pm question

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I've locally modified BackupPC_fixLinks to check files even if they have more than one link. I'm getting a lot of errors like this: Can't read size of /backups/pc/foo--tm50-e00145--tm50-s00339---shared/47/f%2f/fshared/flogs/fapplication.log-20100830.gz from attrib file so calculating manuall

[BackupPC-users] Feature request: "finish what you're doing and then stop"

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
It would be really nice to be able to tell the backuppc server to finish all current backups without queuing any others, and then stop/exit completely. I know I can sort-of do this by disabling backups for each host, but that's a really big pain, and from the reading of the queuing system I did a

[BackupPC-users] Don't use rsync -H!! (was Re: copying the pool to a new filesystem?!)

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:27:17PM +0100, Oliver Freyd wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a happy user of BackupPC since a few years, > running an old installation of backuppc that was created > on some version of SuSE linux, then ported over to debian lenny. > > The pool is a reiserfs3 on LVM, about 300GB

[BackupPC-users] Bizarre form of cpool corruption.

2010-12-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
So I'm writing a script to transfer a client from one host to another, using tarPCCopy, and I'm getting messages like this: Can't find foo--tm50-e00145--tm50-s00339---shared/47/f%2f/fshared/ffoo/fpurchase_order_assets/fbatch_7813/f7105620_done.txt in pool, will copy file which is fascinating

Re: [BackupPC-users] Sanity check re: pooling.

2010-12-06 Thread Ed McDonagh
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:47 -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hi! I've got two servers, each around a TB, that I'm backing up with > BackupPC. (No, not for "real" backups, but to be able to not have to > recall tapes when someone deletes a file. Darn users.) I'm planning on > merging the two Windo

[BackupPC-users] Sanity check re: pooling.

2010-12-06 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hi! I've got two servers, each around a TB, that I'm backing up with BackupPC. (No, not for "real" backups, but to be able to not have to recall tapes when someone deletes a file. Darn users.) I'm planning on merging the two Windows servers into one Linux box serving via Samba. Assuming poolin