Craig Barratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Craig
> Rodrigo writes: > >> The only problem seems to be with this index file and status.pl. I >> just removed status.pl, and backuppc re-made it. I dont know if this >> was the best thing to do in this situation, but everything else seems >> to be fine. > > That's perfectly fine. status.pl will be rebuilt and, over time, > the per-host status information will get updated. Ok. > >> My question is: is there any way to rebuild backups file based on the >> data available in the disk? > > The prior version of the backups should be saved in backups.old. > Check if that file exists is non-empty and correct. If so, copy > it to backups. This file is corrupted also... I think one of the problems I have, is that this system is running with xfs. This filesystem seems to behave very bad on power losses. I had a similar problem with another machine that runs xfs. > In 3.0.0 there is a script BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary that re-creates > the backups file. An extra copy of the relevant information is stored > in each numbered backup directory. BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary can > also try to recover that information from the LOG files in the case of > backups made prior to 3.x that don't have this meta data saved. 3.x is > also more careful about how it writes these files: it writes to a > temporary and does a readback comparison before renaming the file. > > You could upgrade and try BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary, but upgrading > right after you had problems on the system might add too much perceived > risk for your liking. I already have another server with the 3.0 version running, but I was too lasy (or busy) too upgrade this one. I will wait a little bit, to see if everything is really ok, and after that, will upgrade the system. Thanks for the tips, specially for the one about BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary. Rodrigo > > Craig > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
