Andy writes:

> Running 3.2beta0 already, sorry for not including that info.  What is the fix 
> that should be applied?  I will check my copy for it and make sure it's in 
> there. 

I should have been more specific.  It's fixed in 3.2.0beta1.
Here's the diff.  It just wraps an eval() around the unpack().

Craig

--- BackupPC-3.2.0beta0/lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm  2009-04-05 11:09:15.000000000 
-0700
+++ BackupPC-3.2.0beta1/lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm  2010-01-24 17:30:43.000000000 
-0800
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 #
 #========================================================================
 #
-# Version 3.2.0beta0, released 5 April 2009.
+# Version 3.2.0beta1, released 24 Jan 2010.
 #
 # See http://backuppc.sourceforge.net.
 #
@@ -252,11 +252,18 @@
            $fd->read(\$newData, 65536);
            $data .= $newData;
        }
-       (
-            @{$a->{files}{$fileName}}{@FldsUnixW},
-            @{$a->{files}{$fileName}}{@FldsUnixN},
-            $data
-        ) = unpack("w$nFldsW N$nFldsN a*", $data);
+        eval {
+           (
+               @{$a->{files}{$fileName}}{@FldsUnixW},
+               @{$a->{files}{$fileName}}{@FldsUnixN},
+               $data
+            ) = unpack("w$nFldsW N$nFldsN a*", $data);
+        };
+        if ( $@ ) {
+            $a->{_errStr} = "unpack: Can't read attributes for $fileName from 
$file ($@)";
+            $fd->close;
+            return;
+        }
         if ( $a->{files}{$fileName}{$FldsUnixN[-1]} eq "" ) {
             $a->{_errStr} = "Can't read attributes for $fileName"
                           . " from $file";

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