fsck finished with no problems. Here's what it is, those errors are coming up 
when they should not. The specific case I was looking at, I had rsync exclude 
some directories and recently changed it thinking it wasn't excluding them 
(oops). So the errors shouldn't have even appeared in the first place. Second 
sets of data seem to show that stuff is missing, but I don't know for sure. 
Stuff is definitely there now, but I don't know if it either did not get backed 
up, got deleted, or had some strange inode problems when converting to ext4.


Saturn2888 wrote:
> I don't think the RAM is bad, but I can do a check on it. The directories no 
> longer exist but I swear they had to have. After a lot of observation, it's 
> creating new directories and after 2 full backups, the errors stop (duh, 
> because it's not looking back an extra full backup when rsyncing). I also 
> noticed backup 0 or the lowest one seems to always have the data even though 
> newer ones do not even on hosts where no data has changed in months. My 
> suspicion is that the inodes got messed up and only one was kept meaning all 
> the old hardlinks went away and only the first one (original) was kept. 
> That's from not knowing anything about ext4 though so I could be wrong.
> 
> I'm running fsck -f, and it's still on the first pass. I'll update you when 
> it finishes.
> 
> Do those directories exist? Can you read them as the backuppc user? Have 
> you tried an fsck on the partition?
> 
> 'Clean' means it was unmounted before the last shutdown, not that the 
> structure is correct.  Use a -f to force a check anyway.
> 
> Bad RAM can cause this sort of problem too.
> 
> 
> 
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On 8/4/2010 8:57 AM, Saturn2888 wrote:
> > 
> > > To make it easier for people to know what I'm talking about, here are the 
> > > errors I'm getting in my logs. It's a bunch of things like these for 
> > > different folders on different hosts.
> > > 2010-07-28 02:40:03 ERROR: opendir 
> > > (/var/lib/backuppc/pc/main/174/ffull-drive/fusr/flib/fperl5/fauto/fText/fCSV_XS)
> > >  failed
> > > 2010-07-28 02:40:03 ERROR: opendir 
> > > (/var/lib/backuppc/pc/main/173/ffull-drive/fusr/flib/fperl5/fauto/fText/fCSV_XS)
> > >  failed
> > > 
> > 
> > Do those directories exist? Can you read them as the backuppc user? Have 
> > you tried an fsck on the partition?
> > 
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> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On 8/4/2010 8:23 AM, Saturn2888 wrote:
> > 
> > > An update, it's doing it now for newer files too and my log files are 
> > > only growing in size. What's with ext4? Is there a way to check if 
> > > something's amok? Fsck says the file system is clean.?
> > > 
> > 
> > 'Clean' means it was unmounted before the last shutdown, not that the 
> > structure is correct.  Use a -f to force a check anyway.
> > 
> > Bad RAM can cause this sort of problem too.
> > 
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