Yes - this is exactly what I suggest in my response a few days ago. Without any other info or reason to assume a bug in BackupPC, a potential problem would be due to a non-standard/buggy/inconsisten/incompatible file system type such as Fuse File System.
I sometimes get issues backing up my Google Drive mounted as a Fuse Filesystem. G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 14:14:13 +0000 on Tuesday, March 14, 2023: > Hi there, > > Sorry, wrote this last week and didn't manage to hit 'send'. :/ > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, David Heap wrote: > > > I'm seeing an issue where the uid/gid of two files inside the backup are > > incorrectly root instead of the correct owner (openldap in this case). > > > > Files on the server: > > > > -rw------- 1 openldap openldap 10485759 Apr 8 2022 log.0000000004 > > -rw------- 1 openldap openldap 10485759 Sep 21 14:16 log.0000000005 > > -rw------- 1 openldap openldap 10485759 Feb 22 10:50 log.0000000006 > > -rw------- 1 openldap openldap 8192 Apr 19 2022 memberUid.bdb > > > > Files in the backup (output of BackupPC_ls): > > > > > > -rw------- 105/107 10485759 2022-04-08 08:38:34 > > /srv/ldap/<servername>/log.0000000004 (d363e1e6aa3efc35e027e45f2279aa3f) > > > > -rw------- 0/0 10485759 2022-09-21 14:16:55 > > /srv/ldap/<servername>/log.0000000005 (c4f72b8befc18f3ba2dce596572529cf) > > > > -rw------- 0/0 10485759 2023-02-22 10:50:42 > > /srv/ldap/<servername>/log.0000000006 (c42c092af72eb67324424c609be769ba) > > > > -rw------- 105/107 8192 2022-04-19 14:03:41 > > /srv/ldap/<servername>/memberUid.bdb (73a58e4133305486ea3db35b05431534) > > > > > > All the other files in the folder have the correct owner/group. The > > file ownership isn't changing on the server at the time of backup. > > > > I've tried removing these files from all the backups and running a > > full nightly to (hopefully) clean out something that's cached wrong > > in the pool, but they came back again the next night with the same > > issue. Any ideas? > > My guess is that you're doing something funky with filesystems, for > example the BackupPC data is a network mount. Can you give us a bit > more information? > > And do you have a compelling reason to back up ten megabyte log files > that are a year old? :) > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
