Dominic,

I’m mistaking, you’re right.. A previous setup was using sshfs and it’s 
actually the internal system which is being used now.

The destination folder has a gfs2 file system.

The source folders have ext4.

attributes / access is not really essential, but preferred! 

Thanks,
Marijn


On 15 May 2014, at 10:45, Dominic Raferd <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Marijn
> 
> Yes from Mike's email it does seem there is a problem with rdiff-backup if 
> the destination filesystem is accessed via NFS.
> 
> I hadn't realised you use sshfs, the script you gave appeared to use 
> rdiff-backup's internal connection method. Yet I use sshfs to mount a remote 
> source directory (for a source machine which cannot run rdiff-backup) and I 
> have never had any problems with it, my remote filesystem is ext4 (previously 
> reiserfs), the destination filesystem is ext4. I have always used 
> rdiff-backup switches --no-eas and --no-acls which may or may not be 
> significant, and I backup from an LVM snapshot of the source.
> 
> What are the underlying filesystems for the sources (/etc and /home) and for 
> the destination (YYY.domain.nl::/data/backup/XXX/rdiff-disk-backup)?
> 
> Dominic
> -- 
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> 
> On 14/05/2014 13:43, M. Verkerk wrote:
>> Dear Dominic,
>> 
>> Thanks for your response!
>> 
>> Some of these files are from inactive users and I’m quite sure their files 
>> weren’t changed during the rdiff backup!
>> 
>> Did you read the email from Mike Fleetwood? These are similar error 
>> messages, allegedley caused by retrieving wrong hid and gid on NFS file 
>> systems. I’m using a remote filesystem as well, SSHFS, over here!
>> 
>> I have applied this patch and running a backup at this very moment. 
>> Unfortunately it’s taking quite long because I had to interrupt a previous 
>> backup and rdiff is busy with ‘regressing’.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Marijn
>> 
>> On 14 May 2014, at 14:07, Dominic Raferd <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Marijn, a similar situation was discussed here quite recently, see 
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2014-03/msg00012.html. 
>>> The cause in this case, and probably in yours, is that the source data is 
>>> changing while the backup is proceeding. I note that in your case some of 
>>> the source files that are missing in backup have not changed, but maybe 
>>> their metadata changed? What filesystem are they on?
>>> 
>>> If you really need to backup the missing files, using a static copy of the 
>>> source (e.g. a snapshot) should solve the problem. If the missing files are 
>>> unimportant, Chris Wilson suggested a way to stop these messages appearing.
>>> 
>>> Dominic
>>> 
> 
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