Garith,

> As the subject suggestions I'm getting an error on a host I'm attempting to 
> backup. The exact error as it stands in the error log shows (server name 
> removed):
> 
> 2010-09-01 12:08:28 <serverhostname>: Cannot compress negative numbers in 
> pack at /usr/local/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm line 295.
> 2010-09-01 12:08:35 Backup failed on <serverhostname> (Child exited 
> prematurely)
> 
> I found the following post from 2004 -> 
> http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/2004-03/msg00066.html
> and the solution was to change file File-RsyncP-0.46/FileList/FileList.xs. I 
> checked this file on my system and it already has those changes.

I'm not sure of the root cause, but in BackupPC 3.2.0 there is a
fix to make sure this is a non-fatal error.  The fix was to wrap
the unpack in an eval().

Craig

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