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Re: [BackupPC-users] MakeLink failed with -4

2010-02-22 12:22:28
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] MakeLink failed with -4
From: clayj AT nwlink DOT com
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:20:23 -0800 (PST)
OK - so is that more or less "normal" behavior?

Should I see anything in the pool/cpool directories while the system is idle?

I did try manually hard linking files from the pc tree to pool (but not to
cpool) and was able to do so.

Thanks!

Clay


> Clay Jackson wrote at about 14:27:43 -0800 on Sunday, February 21, 2010:
>  > I THINK I have backuppc working on a Mac (leopard); but I'm seeing
> thousands of entries in the log file that say "BackupPC_Link failed
> with -4 in MakeLink".
>  >
>  > Anyone have any idea what's going on?
>
> This means that the files couldn't be linked to the pool/cpool and
> instead the file is left (unlinked) in the pc tree. Could be due to a
> hard link issue.
>
>  >
>  > It may be unrelated; but in my pc/$HOST directory, all of the
>  > backed up files are in a directory labeled "f%2f" - that sure looks
>  > like a printf format string to me - is this "normal".
>
> Yes it is very normal -- nothing to do with 'printf'. Rather %2f is
> the code for "/" and 'f' is the normal file mangling. SO this is your
> is '/' (root) share.
>
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