On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 05:18:51PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently gotten the appropriate holes cut in my firewall that allow 
> me to backup my mail server.  The problem is that Maildirs don't seem to 
> want to be backed up... the backups fail, w/ hundreds of errors like 
> these in the logs:
> 
> ?gtar:./home/vmail/fjcomm.com/V/foo.bar/new/1137800711.V805Iac017.zena.tonservices.com:
>  
> Warning: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> 
> I tried googling for what exactly 'Cannot stat' means, but I didn't come 

Think of it as the compiled language equivalent of doing an "ls -l".
gtar thinks there is a file by that name from a previous directory scan
(no "-l") and now is going back to actually do the backup of that file.
Now, for some reason, it can't get the 'stat'istics for the file, most
likely because it was a temporary file and is now gone.


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