Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:

> I'm backing up a bunch of machine using BackupPC 3.1.0. Everything has
> been working fine for a long time, but since  a couple of days backups
> for one machine have been failing. The XferLOG for the last partial
> backup has this error message:
>
>       Unable to open /mnt/backup/backuppc/pc/<machine-name>/new/<long-
> filename> for writing after link fail\n
>
> Whenever the backup for this machine starts the load on BackupPC
> server jumps up to ~10, while it's ~1-2 when other backups are
> running. Could this be a case of corruption or something? That 'link
> fail' is worrying me. Any advice?

More info: I stopped BackupPC, unmounted the backup drive and ran fsck  
-c -f -v on it. That didn't show any errors. (I mounted it again and  
started BackupPC again afterwards.)

Nils Breunese.

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