Hello, On 17/06/2019 00:43, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote: > 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?
We have exactly this same haunted-Backuppc problem. Following is a copy of our may 22d message : --------------- We are seeing weird rsync/file vanished errors. A short example : This is the rsync child about to exec /usr/bin/rsync_bpc Xfer PIDs are now 12922,12924 xferPids 12922,12924 [ skipped 18 lines ] file has vanished: "/root/libpcre2-8.pc" file has vanished: "/root/libpcre2-32.pc" file has vanished: "/root/Makefile" file has vanished: "/root/libpcre2-posix.pc" file has vanished: "/root/libtool" file has vanished: "/root/config.log" file has vanished: "/root/src" file has vanished: "/root/config.status" file has vanished: "/root/libpcre2-16.pc" file has vanished: "/root/pcre2-config" [ skipped 423 lines ] file has vanished: "/usr/portage/app-crypt/heimdal/files/heimdal_build-headers-before-use.patch" file has vanished: "/usr/portage/app-crypt/heimdal/files/heimdal_fix-db60.patch" file has vanished: "/usr/portage/app-crypt/heimdal/files/heimdal_hcrypto.patch" rsync_bpc: fstat "/usr/portage/app-crypt/heimdal/files/heimdal_build-headers-before-use.patch" failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync_bpc: fstat "/usr/portage/app-crypt/heimdal/files/heimdal_fix-db60.patch" failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync_bpc: fstat "/usr/portage/app-crypt/heimdal/files/heimdal_hcrypto.patch" failed: No such file or directory (2) Those messages are weird because : 1/ for the "/root/xxx" ones, the designated files *do not exist* in the directory, before, during or after the backup. 2/ for the "/usr/portage/yyy" messages, the files do exist before, during and after the backup. --------------- Same as written by OP : those "missing files" have no existence whatsoever on the target system *or* do exist without any doubt. > This is almost spooky... Any hint ? Or the next step will be to call an exorcist. -- Pierre-Yves Bonnetain-Nesterenko B&A Consultants - Sécurité informatique - www.ba-consultants.fr Tel. : +33 (0) 563 277 241 - Fax : +33 (0) 567 737 829 _______________________________________________ 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/
