backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 22:09:29 -0400 on Saturday, June 15, 2019: > I am using backuppc 4.3.0 to backup an Ubuntu 18.04 Linux server using > rsync. > > 1 get the following (unexplainable) rsync errors: > > [1] file has vanished: "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20archive.~1~ > > This file which seemingly refers to an emacs backup file, has not > existed on my server for months, Since I have neither touched nor > edited 20archive in months, I don't know why backuppc is finding > it and then saying it vanishes. >
I'm not even sure how the above even happens given that: 1. 20archive.~1~ is nowhere on my existing filesystem (and probably only existed transiently a few months back while I was editing the 20archive file since I typically erase the emacs backups right away I can verify this by running 'find' or 'ls' as user root. Similarly, for 'locate' and 'lsof'. The file simply doesn't exist! 2. 20archive.~1~ doesn't appear in any prior backup. So not even sure how backuppc can know about it as it's only existence seems to be in the strange error log. So how the heck does backuppc find a non-existent file even before it goes on to claim that is has "vanished"? Where could it possibly be finding this long ago deleted file? This is almost spooky... _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
