On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400
"Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT 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 ------------------------ 

 Filesystem            Size  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

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