On 11/2/2016 8:48 PM, Adam Goryachev wrote: > Don't use rsync, or anything else. If you can't mount the partition, > then it's not a BackupPC related issue, and is probably caused > bycorruption during the copy process. I was using rsync to attempt to convert from ext3 to xfs, but that's turned out to be a bad idea and I abandoned that process - it was also going to take several months to comple >>> What are the error messages? >> There were no discernible errors, BackupPC simply didn't work - it >> showed no backups for any hosts, and when trying to complete the backup >> would fail and not log the error - almost like it couldn't write to the >> pool, but I re-verified permissions at least a dozen times. I've >> reinstalled the OS since then, so any logs are lost. > OK, so one step at a time... What FS is the source? When you say you > "converted it to ext4" what exactly did you do? Followed this document for converting the filesystem: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/ext4converting.html > Did you run a fsck afterwards? Yes, in fact it won't mount without doing an fsck. > Next, manually check permissions for backuppc: > <snip> > check /var/log/messages (syslog and daemon.log etc) for any related > backuppc startup logs/etc. I'll check that during the next attempt. My pool is copying again now.
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