On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 07:44:11PM -0500, Joe Steele wrote: > I suspect that if you check, you will find that the files listed in > your warning messages have 2 or more hardlinks to them.
yes I did a bit more googleing and found the issue is thats its a hard link and this doesn't have a sha so maybe rdiff-backup should know this when it does a verify - or it should keep a sha for the hardlink... > > After seeing your post, it occurred to me that your problem might be > related to a bug report I filed back in June (and which I have just > now updated): > > http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?26848 not sure if I am running into that > > As noted in the bug report, I suspect that files restored from your > backups will likely end up being hardlinked differently from the way > that they were linked originally. > > I had included a patch with the bug report that seemed to fix the > problems I reported. That is to say, future backups could be made > and restored correctly, hardlinks and all. However, the patch won't > help with the restoration of earlier backups from a repository. > > Although I use this patch myself, I would feel a lot better if the > patch was reviewed and blessed by the developers before it went into > widespread use for anything other than testing purposes. My > dabbling with the internals of the rdiff-backup program has been > very limited. > > --Joe > > > On 11/25/2009 4:11 PM, Alex Samad wrote: > >Hi > > > >After following the thread on verify times. I have decided to run > >--verify on some of my backup repos > > > >and I am getting a lot of > > > >Warning: Cannot find SHA1 digest for file bin/bzcat, > >perhaps because this feature was added in v1.1.1 > >Warning: Cannot find SHA1 digest for file bin/bzip2, > >perhaps because this feature was added in v1.1.1 > > > >this is against a repo that i just recently ran rdiff-backup against > >with no errors. > > > >this is on debian amd64 > >ii rdiff-backup 1.2.8-5 remote incremental > >backup > > > >which looks like the latest version > -- The world will end in 5 minutes. Please log out.
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