Steve Blackwell wrote at about 11:18:36 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 2009:
 > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:37 -0400
 > "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:
 > 
 > > Steve Blackwell wrote at about 08:49:23 -0400 on Wednesday, August
 > > 12, 2009:
 > >  > Backuppc has been behaving strangely lately. This is another
 > >  > instance.
 > 
 > ...
 > >  > 05:00:06 Running BackupPC_link steve (pid=8901) 
 > >  > 2009-08-12 05:00:08 BackupPC_link got error -3 when calling
 > >  > 
 > > MakeFileLink(/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml,
 > >  > b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3, 1)
 > >  > 
 > >  > followed by 100,000+ of the same error on different files
 > >  > 
 > >  > What is going on here?
 > >  > 
 > > 
 > > Error -3 means that calling the perl function link (between a file in
 > > the pool and a name in the pc tree) failed.
 > > 
 > > Try manually doing something like the following from the command line:
 > > link
 > > b32585c3cc30b7ebb556d335a08554e3 
 > > /media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml
 > 
 > Where do I need to be to run this? 

>>From the command line anywhere. Just type the command as-is.
Actually type it as:
su -u backuppc link ...

so that it runs as user 'backuppc'
If it works, you can undo it by typing:
rm 
/media/disk/pc/steve/151/f%2f/froot/f.gconf/fdesktop/fgnome/faccessibility/fkeyboard/f%25gconf.xml
(assuming the file didn't exist previously)

 > 
 > > 
 > > Potential reasons:
 > > - Files are on different filesystems
 > > - File system you are using doesn't allow hard links (what filesystem
 > >   are you using)
 > 
 > # mount
 > ...
 > /dev/sdd2 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)
 > ...
 > 
 > > - Pool file somehow got erased before MakeFileLink was called or pc
 > >   tree got erased
 > > - File system full (?)
 > 
 > >From logwatch:
 >  --------------------- Disk Space Begin ------------------------ 
 > 
 >  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 >  /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
 >                        143G   57G   78G  43% /
 >  /dev/sdb1             190M   21M  160M  12% /boot
 >  /dev/sda1             112G   69G   44G  61% /mnt/c_drive
 >  /dev/sdc1             7.6G  783M  6.9G  11% /media/UDISK
 >  /dev/sdd1             466G   80M  466G   1% /media/WINDOWS_BACUP
 >  /dev/sdd2             459G   30G  406G   7% /media/disk
 >  
 >  
 >  ---------------------- Disk Space End ------------------------- 
 > so plenty of space!
 >  
 > > I guess I would ask what have you changed lately either for BackupPC
 > > specifically or on your setup in general?
 > 
 > The backup drive is a 1TB external USB and my computer is getting a
 > little long in the tooth and the BIOS won't boot if I power on with it
 > connected. So I get lazy and don't always plug it in and restart the
 > backuppc service. What has changed is that I'm being more diligent in
 > making my backups and perhaps more significantly, I have recently
 > upgraded from F9 to F10.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Steve
 > 
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