On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I made a few changes to the Linux machine being backed up - I stopped
> > some unused processes - apache, mysql, and a couple of others, which
> > freed up a fair amount of memory. Then started a new full backup. The
> > backup went a little farther, but now I get a bunch of these errors all
> > in the same directory -
> >
> > Remote[2]: file has vanished:
> "/home/katie/.mozilla/firefox/t7hd74mu.default/Cache/CF4DEE1Ed01"
> > Remote[2]: file has vanished:
> "/home/katie/.mozilla/firefox/t7hd74mu.default/Cache/D
> >
> > so rsync has died again.
>
> Those errors should not be fatal. That sort of thing happens all the time
> on
> live filesystems.
>
> > I googled the error, and the only
> > recommendation I could find was not to use rsync through ssh, but just
> > use rsyncd without ssh. That should work in my environment since I am
> > just backing up over a :LAN, but is this the real solution? Or, should I
> > just remove
> >
> > /home/katie/.mozilla/firefox/t7hd74mu.default/Cache/
>
> Running over ssh is often a problem if the target is Windows with the
> Cygwin
> version, but not under Linux.
>
> > from the backup? Is that a common practice, to remove browser cache
> > files from the backup?. BTW, no one was using the machine while the
> > backup was taking place, so I am not sure why they disappeared.
>
> There's not much point in backing up the cache directories, but they
> shouldn't
> kill you either. Is the software on the target current with OS updates?
>
Yes, the machine is running Debian testing, so it is as up to date as is
possible - I upgrade it weekly.
I am going to run the backup again and enable debugging in rsync.
Mark
>
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> Les Mikesell
> lesmikes...@gmail.com
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