On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 03:51:11PM -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> When I mount samba partitions using smbmount and run something like this:
> find /mnt/linnet_g/ -type f|xargs wc
> 
> I get a number of errors which look like this:
> 
> wc: /mnt/linnet_g/analysis.lesion/b19o61/b61o19.9/b61o18.9-042303.332.cbin: 
> Input/output error
> 
> 
> While I don't see exactly this output in the daily amanda runs, I'm
> beginning to have doubts about the backup.
> 
> If a file are skipped due to error in a level 0 backup, will it be
> picked up in the next level 1 backup?
> 
> Do files get dropped occasionally, beyond the system files.
> 
> The error messages are usually too long to carefully peruse, due
> partly to all of the system file error message.  I'm afraid that I
> will miss error if they occur.
> 

IIRC you can't do a second open for read of a file already opened.
I'm guessing that it depends on how the first application does its
opening, exclusive or ???  But there seem to be a lot of files on
my PC systems that can't be backed up for this reason.  Some of
the files are things that seem to be opened when the system boots
and stay open.  I think those never get to amanda.

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