Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
2009-08-12 12:28:26
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" <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?
>>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 ------------------------
>
> 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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