On 11/11/2010 5:21 PM, Frank J. Gómez wrote:
> Sorry to be banging on the list so much lately, but I've got another
> issue I don't understand...
>
> I've modified a copy of BackupPC_archiveHost, with the changes being:
>
>     * I'm piping output to gpg after compression and before splitting
>     * I want my archive filenames in this format: 0.$host.tar.gz.gpg.aa
>
> I'm using ArchivePreUserCmd to rename 0.$host.tar.gz.pgp.* to
> 1.$host.tar.gz.gpg.*.  The renaming is working correctly.
>
> When I start an archive, if there are 0.$host.tar.gz.pgp.* files exist
> in the destination, they are renamed as expected but split errors out with:
>
>     Writing tar archive for host tofu, backup #17, split to output files
>     /media/s3/backup/0.tofu.tar.gz.gpg.*
>
>     /usr/bin/split: /media/s3/backup/0.tofu.tar.gz.gpg.aa: No such file
>     or directory
>
>
> This doesn't make sense to me, because how would split get that filename
> in the first place?  Isn't it just receiving data from STDIN?  Or is it
> somehow having trouble creating the file?
>
> If I attempt to start the archive again immediately after this failure,
> it succeeds.  (No renaming takes place, as this was handled by the
> failed attempt.)  This led me to suspect that perhaps BackupPC is trying
> to start the archive before the rename process ends (my destination
> folder is a mounted Amazon s3 share, so there /could/ be latency).  I
> put a "sleep 60" in my script after the rename, but that didn't change a
> thing.
>
> Any thoughts?

It might be easier to just wrap your own script around 
BackupPC_tarCreate in the first place instead of starting with the 
archivehost setup - especially if you intend to schedule the runs with 
cron eventually.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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