On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Aaron Cossey <aaron.cos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Some general information:
>> OS: Debian 6
>> Backuppc Version: 3.1.0
>> XferMethod: Rsync
>>
>> I ocassionally get this error from incremental backups:
>>
>> Got fatal error during xfer (No backup directory
>> /srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/dev4_srv_vhosts_cms/new)
>> Backup aborted (No backup directory
>> /srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/dev4_srv_vhosts_cms/new)
>>
>> None of the other hosts have a "new" directory.
>>
>
> You should only see the 'new' directory while backups are in progress.
>  New/changed files accumulate there while they are being processed,
> then it is removed after everything is compresed/linked.  Could
> something else be removing it?   Are you running anything manually
> that isn't scheduled?
>
> --
>  Les Mikesell
>     lesmikes...@gmail.com

Thanks Les,

No, nothing else is running, just the single backuppc instance.

I want to try and catch it in action when it creates and uses the
"new" directory, so I'll let this cron run tonight and see what comes
back.
*/5 * * * * root find /srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/ -maxdepth 2 -type d
-name "new"

--Aaron

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