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Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup

2009-08-12 18:18:08
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] 100,000+ errors in last nights backup
From: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:15:00 -0400
Filipe Brandenburger wrote at about 14:40:34 -0400 on Wednesday, August 12, 
2009:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:49, Steve Blackwell<zephod AT cfl.rr DOT com> 
 > wrote:
 > > 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?
 > 
 > I used to have exactly this problem.
 > 
 > I guess you changed TopDir in your config.pl file, right?
 > 
 > Well, BackupPC 3.1.0 has a bug in that TopDir change will not affect
 > the "pool" and "cpool" directories, so it will try to create a
 > hardlink in /var/lib/BackupPC for a file in /media/disk, which are in
 > different filesystems, so it fails.
 > 

Yes - I had suggested that the problem might be that the pool and pc
trees are not on the same filesystem.

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