Not misleading. It's a perl standard and backuppc is written in perl.
Paul Leyland wrote at about 08:22:05 +0000 on Sunday, November 29, 2020:
> Thank you. I would argue that reporting an exit status of 512 when
> tar(1) returns 2 is misleading. It misled me anyway.
>
> The source of the problem is that localhost.pl ran a tar(1) locally
> under the backuppc account and did not set the --ignore-failed-read
> option. Using the generic $Conf{TarClientCmd} from config.pl solved that
> one.
>
> Looks like the localhost.pl file in the Ubuntu distribution (at least)
> could do with a little attention.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 28/11/2020 22:52, Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users wrote:
> > The reported exit status is shifted left by 8 bits, so that means tar
> > exited with status 2, which means failure.
> >
> > You should look at the XferLOG to see what error(s) it reported. It
> > could be something benign, but you should be sure before you start
> > disabling error checking.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 8:59 AM Paul Leyland <paul.leyl...@gmail.com
> > <mailto:paul.leyl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > This is a golden oldie. At least a decade after
> >
> > https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/thread/AANLkTi%3DuzdiYV1jCzofkfeEQ6-czx34uEmYx2159Uxa%2B%40mail.gmail.com/#msg26616969
> >
> > <https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/thread/AANLkTi%3DuzdiYV1jCzofkfeEQ6-czx34uEmYx2159Uxa%2B%40mail.gmail.com/#msg26616969>
> > appeared, Ubuntu still ships with a backuppc which reports
> >
> > backup failed (Tar exited with error 512 () status) for the localhost
> > target, even though the backup is, AFAICT, adequate in every significant
> > respect.
> >
> > Should the source be changed to mask off only the bottom 8 bits?
> >
> > For the time being I will add the option "--ignore-failed-read" to
> > TarClientCmd for localhost. Cosmetic, true, because the backup is
> > fully functional but still...
> >
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