Package: backuppc Version: 2.1.1-2sarge1 Severity: important My first, full, backup of localhost went fine. All succeeding backups have reported errors like this:
Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/XferLOG.1.z, modified 2006-02-25 06:16:17 Running: /usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C sudo /bin/tar -c -v -f - -C / --totals --newer=2006-02-23\ 22:28:54 ./etc ./usr/local ./var/www ./var/lib/cvs ./spool Xfer PIDs are now 9019,9018 /bin/tar: Substituting 1901-12-13 21:45:52 for unknown date format `2006-02-23\\ 22:28:54' create 755 0/0 0 etc [...many many lines deleted...] create 644 2656/2656 8589934592 spool/mdj/mdj-050726.tgz tarExtract: [here comes pure binary code, like 67gd74st63Q but worse] tarExtract: [more binary; will call it simply [binary] below] [...] tarExtract: Can't open /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost/new/f%2f/f[binary] create 0 0/0 0 [binary] tarExtract: [binary] etc. When I then look at my backup, it turns out that I have many more shares than I have specified, and these shares have long, binary file names. Since the error happened right after the extremely large file (9Gb), I suspect that the culprit is some mechanism used by backuppc which can't handle this file size. In order to test this idea, I have now removed the 9Gb file, removed the localhost backups, and started with new backups from scratch in the same way as before (the only thing which has changed is that the large file is no longer there). Now I no longer get errors or binary-named shares. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-rc4 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages backuppc depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii apache 1.3.33-6sarge1 versatile, high-performance HTTP s ii apache-ssl 1.3.33-6sarge1 versatile, high-performance HTTP s ii debconf 1.4.51 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.13.8 Package maintenance system for Deb ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.14-1 Module for manipulation of ZIP arc ii libcompress-zlib-perl 1.34-1 Perl module for creation and manip ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.7-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-suid 5.8.7-3 Runs setuid Perl scripts ii samba-common 3.0.14a-4 Samba common files used by both th ii smbclient 3.0.14a-4 a LanManager-like simple client fo ii tar 1.15.1-1 GNU tar ii wwwconfig-common 0.0.43 Debian web auto configuration -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
