Re: [BackupPC-users] Error: Backup number for host .... does not exist

Hi,

vezza wrote on 2009-06-20 06:30:23 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Error: Backup number 
for host .... does not exis]:
> 
> Error: Backup number for host .... does not exist

This is not what I meant when

I wrote on 2009-06-16 00:30:27 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Error: Backup number 
for host .... does not exis]:
> Also, please repeat the error message in the body of your message, as we don't
> all have the subject line prominently visible when reading the message (I see
> "[BackupPC-users] Error: Backup", which is pretty much useless).

I was referring to

vezza wrote on 2009-06-15 11:48:05 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Error: Backup number 
for host .... does not exis]:
> 
> Could someone please explain me how to solve this problem?

where "this problem" is not obvious without the subject line next to it. I
probably should have said something like "don't assume the subject line is
visible to everyone. If you refer to your subject line, quote (or repeat)
the relevant part(s) of it instead of using pronouns."

vezza wrote on 2009-06-20 06:30:23 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Error: Backup number 
for host .... does not exis]:
> any idea?

Probably not, else we would have responded, right? Or maybe we just didn't
have any time, in which case the question is also pointless.

Back to "this problem".

vezza wrote on 2009-06-16 14:55:03 -0400 [[BackupPC-users] Error: Backup number 
for host .... does not exis]:
> 
> > Could you please post the following:
> > 
> > 1. The output of running
> > 
> > cd $TopDir/pc/$host; ls -ld [A-Za-z]* 
> 
> 
> $ ls -ld [A-Za-z]* 
> drwxrwxr-x. 18 backuppc backuppc 4096 16 giu 20:24 cpool
> drwx------.  2 backuppc backuppc 4096 12 gen 23:54 lost+found
> drwxrwxr-x.  5 backuppc backuppc 4096 16 giu 20:24 pc
> drwxr-x---.  2 backuppc backuppc 4096  9 giu 15:17 trash

That is really strange for a pc/$host directory. Or maybe you didn't quite do
what I asked? Let's simplify my question at the cost of slightly more output:
Could you please post the result of

        ls -l $TopDir/pc/$host

?

In any case, the info page for 'ls' ("info coreutils 'ls invocation'") states
that the "." next to the file modes ("drwxr-x---." <- there) indicates an
"alternate access method". It also says that an extended ACL is specified by a
"+". It doesn't detail what a "." means. Has anyone come across that before?
I can only guess that that *might* possibly be causing access failures to your
backups file. Can you tell us anything relevant about your system? Selinux?

> Not sure about what you mean about posting a MIME attachment,

Never mind. Let's just assume your backups file contains tabs instead of the
spaces in your post, and let's assume the rest is correct too.

> I'm posting the contents of the files:
> 
> backups:

How did you obtain the contents? I suppose you accessed the file as root. Can
you access it as the backuppc user too? Try something like

        # su -s /bin/bash - backuppc
        % cat pc/$host/backups

(no need to post the output, just tell us if you get the contents or an error
message).

Regards,
Holger

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