On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Mark Phillips <m...@phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:
> 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
>
>>
>>
BTW, rsync version is 3.0.7 protocol version 30.
I ran the backup again, and got these rsync errors on the machine being
backed up:
2010/02/03 14:15:21 [17390] <f????????? home/mark/Desktop/A Still Life with
Iris/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_3.VOB
2010/02/03 14:18:50 [17390] <f????????? home/mark/Desktop/A Still Life with
Iris/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_4.VOB
2010/02/03 14:28:40 [17390] <f????????? home/mark/Desktop/A Still Life with
Iris/movie.iso
2010/02/03 14:28:41 [17390] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4092
bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
2010/02/03 14:28:41 [17390] rsync error: errors with program diagnostics
(code 13) at log.c(237) [sender=3.0.7]
Anyone have an idea as to what is causing this? What other tests can I
perform?
Thanks!
Mark
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