Garith,

Yes, you are seeing a problem in a different part than where 3.2.0
was fixed.

We need to find out why one of the metadata valus is negative, which
causes pack() to fail.  BackupPC expects the type, mode, uid, gid and
size to all be non-negative numbers.  I can't immediately see from the
code how any of them could be negative.

Try changing this code in lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm around lines 300-302:

        $data .= pack("w a* w$nFldsW N$nFldsN", length($file), $file,
                               @{$a->{files}{$file}}{@FldsUnixW},
                               @{$a->{files}{$file}}{@FldsUnixN},
                    );

to look like this:

        eval {
            $data .= pack("w a* w$nFldsW N$nFldsN", length($file), $file,
                                   @{$a->{files}{$file}}{@FldsUnixW},
                                   @{$a->{files}{$file}}{@FldsUnixN},
                        );
        };
        if ( $@ ) {
            $a->{_errStr} = "Can't pack attr for $file: " . 
Dumper($a->{files}{$file});
        }

You will also have to add:

    use Data::Dumper;

near the top of the file where the other "use" lines are.

Hopefully when the error occurs you should get some output in the
XferLOG file.

Craig

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