One little edit, it seems like '78 5e' is a valid zlib Magic Number for CINFO=7 and FLEVEL=1.
backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 13:00:25 -0400 on Thursday, September 1, 2022: > After running BackupPC for almost two decades on a dozen machines or > so, I encountered a weird file error. > > Typically, the prior monthly log files for each host are > zlib-compressed. > So, if I type: file LOG.MMYYYY.z, I get: > LOG.MMYYYY.z: zlib compressed data > > NOW today is Sept 1, 2022 so for each host, the file LOG.082022 gets > compressed to LOG.082022.z for each host. > > However for one of my host, while the files seems to be z-lib compressed > properly (as it is binary yet readable by BackupPC_zcat), running 'file' > shows: > LOG.082022.z: Minix filesystem, V1 (big endian), 19571 zones > > So for some reason 'file' detects it to be a Minix filesystem. > > All my other hosts for all other prior months are just fine. > Even for this host there is no problem for LOG.082022.z on my > secondary BackupPC server. > > Note the magic number for this log file is the normal (for BackupPC) > '78 5e' which is a zlib-ish type magic number but not an official one. > But I imagine since it's not official, somehow in this case the > initial sequence (including the bytes following the first 2) is > interpreted as a Minix File System. > > The first 16 bytes of the file are: > 785e b55d 4d6f 2337 12bd efaf 6820 879d > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
