Les Mikesell wrote: > 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?
The filesystem is ext3 mounted with noatime. What might be unusual about the filename (including the path) in the error message is that it seems it's pretty long: 384 chars. Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
