Networker

Re: [Networker] strange Linux client error/warning message

2006-10-12 10:58:27
Subject: Re: [Networker] strange Linux client error/warning message
From: Stan Sander <ssande AT SANDIA DOT GOV>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:53:05 -0600
Christian Drexler wrote:
> Gurus,
> 
> I have a Linux client running RH ES 3 X86_64 with latest updates that
> gives me the following warning message with every backup completion report:
> <quote>
> Warning: * cds5:/ save: Warning: 64-bit inode number uses high order
> 32-bits.
> </quote>
> The message has appeared first 9 days ago but I can not correlate this
> to any system event on the client or on the backup server.
> 
> The client is running networker version 7.1.4-1.i686 with ext3 as the
> file system, the server (Solaris 8) is running 7.1.4 as well.
> 
> I have searched the knowledge base but did not find anything related.
> Does anybody know what this means and if it can be safely ignored?
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> ~christian
> 

I don't have any answers, but I'm curious about the size of the
filesystem in question.  I wonder if it's too large for the 32 bit
Networker app to handle.  As a preliminary test to see how serious this
may be you might want to try and find all files that have been created
in this filesystem since this message first appeared and then see if
those files show up in the backup and do a test restore on some of them.


-- 
Stan Sander - CSU Special Projects  (505)284-4915
ASAP, LLC, Contractor assigned to Sandia National Laboratories
Unix Systems Administrator

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