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.)
>
> I'm still seeing this error for this one machine. Doesn't anybody have
> any idea? Craig, what could this be?
It sounds like some strange OS or filesystem-related error. Is there
anything unusual about the filesystem or this particular file?
--
Les Mikesell
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