A while ago I posted this: ------- start of forwarded message ------- From: Dan D Niles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Can't open <dir> for empty output Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:46:20 -0500
I am seeing hundreds of thousands of these in my log: create d 755 0/0 512 usr create d 755 0/0 512 var Can't open /backup/BackupPC/pc/<host>/new//f%2f/ for empty output create 0 / 0 Can't open /backup/BackupPC/pc/<host>/new//f%2f/ for empty output create 0 / 0 Can't open /backup/BackupPC/pc/<host>/new//f%2f/ for empty output create 0 / 0 The backup eventually dies with "Child exited prematurely". It was working fine until 3/20/06. [clip] ------- end of forwarded message ------- I starting getting these errors for a different host. I manually started an incremental backup to see if I could debug the problem. I noticed that NewFileList had size 0 and it failed with the empty output error. So I created a new file under /. NewFileList was then size 421 and the backup worked! To test it further, I ran another incremental when that one was done. The NewFileList had size 86, just two attrib lines. The backup worked fine. It looks like this bug is triggered when the NewFileList is empty for the first partition. I'm not sure if the bug is that the NewFileList should never be empty or in the handling of the empty file. Hopefully someone familiar with the code can find the bug. I am using the rsync transfer method. The server is using BackupPC 2.1.2pl1 and rsync version 2.6.6 on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p7. I've had the problem with FreeBSD and Linux clients. Thanks, Dan ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
