Hi there,
I've been having a consistent, reproducable problem with BackupPC and
Xtar. This is what happens:
1. BackupPC, running on Fedora Core 4, successfully backs up a Mac OS
10.3 machine with Xtar.
2. A small percentage of the files backed up will appear as folders in
the BackupPC web GUI, even though they are plainly files when viewed
through an xterm. This includes .doc .xls .tif and a number of other
formats. The GUI even displays the wrong permissions in these cases--755
when the file is actually 644, for example.
3. When BackupPC attempts to restore the files they will be restored as
folders if they appeared as folders in the BackupPC GUI.
I've tracked this problem on multiple machines; it's seems to be
widespread. It happens with the same files every time, even if I start
fresh with a host, eliminating all previous backups. Curiously, if I
rename the file on the server, it will show properly in the BackupPC GUI
and be restored properly. Renaming it back to the original name will
cause the problem to recur.
I tried applying this patch, because it seemed to be addressing issues
related to my problem:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13883485
...but alas, this makes all of my backups fail with a tarExtract error:
Contents of file /back/backuppc/pc/10.25.111.35/XferLOG.0, modified
2005-11-28 12:41:12
Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l backuppc 10.25.111.35 nice -n 19 sudo
/usr/bin/xtar -p -c -v -f - -C /Users --totals --one-file-system
--exclude=\*.mp3 --exclude=\*.m4a .
Xfer PIDs are now 4183,4182
tarExtract: mkdir /back/backuppc/pc/10.25.111.35/new/f%2fUsers/f.rsrc:
File exists at /backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarExtract line 500
create d1775 0/80 0 .
pool d1775 0/80 64 .rsrc
pool 664 501/80 6148 .DS_Store
Tar exited with error 65280 () status
Got fatal error during xfer (Tar exited with error 65280 () status)
Backup aborted by user signal
Any ideas on how to proceed? Needless to say, I'd like to get this fixed
ASAP.
Many thanks,
Matthew
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