Shawn Perry wrote:
> Did you use a disk deduplicator on the drive? Is there a directory
> with alot of files in it?  How many files are you backing up?

Sorry, I'm not familiar with a "deduplicator".

There aren't any directories with "a lot" of files any more than any of 
the other systems I'm backing up.

There are 202,984 files on the system.

> 
> If you have MANY hardlinks on a file system, rsync with the
> --hard-links option has a tendency to croak, leaving tar as the best
> option.

find / -printf "%n %i %p\n" | sort -nr

Doesn't seem to indicate that there is an unusually large number of hard 
links. The only stuff listed with a sizable amount of hard links appear 
to be directories that are all system stuff that would exists on all 
servers.

The system itself is a cPanel hosting server, and hasn't had anything 
special done to it. Let me put it this way - I didn't do anything to 
knowingly create "a lot" of hardlinks. I'm sure there's some, but 
probably not an unusually high number.

> 
> Dirvish has this same issue.
> 
> To answer your question, find a directory or a couple of them that
> have a lot of files.  run "ls -l" or "ls -lR" (the latter is
> recursive) in that directory.  Look at the output.
> 
> sample:
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 79 shawn users   37888 2005-12-04 14:36 X-mas list.xls
> 
> The first field after the permissions us the number of links to the
> data in that file, 79 in this case.  That means there are 79 hard
> links to that file.  There will always be at least one.

Similar to the output of my find command, which was telling me how many 
hard links it found for each file/directory on the system. As I said, 
nothing that seemed to unusual.

> 
> Shawn
> 

You mentioned TAR being a better option on a system with lots of hard 
links. I'll give that a try and see if it's able to perform a successful 
backup.

I will point out that I have a 2nd BackupPC server that is backing up a 
*different* machine running the cPanel system, which has many, many, 
many more files/domains on it; and that is successfully backing up.

I'll also try backing the client in question up to said 2nd BackupPC 
server and see if that works.

> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Nick Bright <nick.bright AT valnet DOT net> 
> wrote:
>>> Shawn Perry wrote:
>>> Does this host have alot of hard links?
>>>
>> That's a good question that I have no idea how to answer.
>>
>>
> 
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