The server log has a bunch (17k) of "BackupPC_refCountUpdate: missing pool file" messages. Reread the v4 docs, github wiki, issues and a bunch of messages on this email listserve.
I am correct that these messages are benign and do not indicate that a backed up file is missing a pool file? My overriding concern is that a file will not be able to recover when needed and that issue was signaled by a benign log message. What additional steps should be taken to resolve these "BackupPC_refCountUpdate" messages? So far, the config was updated as below earlier this year to give the nightly processes time to work through the refCountUpdates. With the config below, it should have worked though in a few days. Backuppc version 4.4.0. Config (Server Settings have not changed in 90+ days.) - PoolV3Enabled = not checked - BackupPCNightlyPeriod = 1 - PoolSizeNightlyUpdatePeriod = 2 - PoolNightlyDigestCheckPercent = 50 backuppc admin and user for 5+ years. Initial install started with ~v3.3.0. Never installed beta. Consistently upgraded each release. Server Log has thousands of these messages for missing pool files in each day's log and across the last 60 days of available server logs. No other errors are reporting in the server logs. sidenote - Have not verified each of the full and incremental backups by doing a test restore of each. Does anyone has a linux shell script that loops through each of the hosts, does a restore to a temp area, reports any errors and cleans up? DR best practices include verifying and a backuppc wiki howto got me thinking about verifying. https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/Fix-a-corrupted-backups-file. Here is beginning of last night's log: Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/log/LOG, modified 2023-12-09 08:45:01 2023-12-09 05:00:00 Running 4 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of 0..15) 2023-12-09 05:00:00 Running BackupPC_nightly -m -P 1 0 63 (pid=11233) 2023-12-09 05:00:00 Running BackupPC_nightly -P 1 64 127 (pid=11234) 2023-12-09 05:00:00 Running BackupPC_nightly -P 1 128 191 (pid=11235) 2023-12-09 05:00:00 Running BackupPC_nightly -P 1 192 255 (pid=11236) 2023-12-09 05:00:00 Next wakeup is 2023-12-09 05:30:00 2023-12-09 05:00:00 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_refCountUpdate -m -s -c -P 1 -r 64-127 2023-12-09 05:00:00 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_refCountUpdate -m -s -c -P 1 -r 128-191 2023-12-09 05:00:00 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_refCountUpdate -m -s -c -P 1 -r 192-255 2023-12-09 05:00:00 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_refCountUpdate -m -s -c -P 1 -r 0-63 2023-12-09 05:00:00 admin1 : __bpc_pidStart__ 11239 2023-12-09 05:00:00 admin2 : __bpc_pidStart__ 11240 2023-12-09 05:00:00 admin3 : __bpc_pidStart__ 11241 2023-12-09 05:00:00 admin : __bpc_pidStart__ 11242 2023-12-09 05:18:10 admin : BackupPC_refCountUpdate: missing pool file 019752426040d42a55ee44f17603d742 count 2 2023-12-09 05:18:10 admin : BackupPC_refCountUpdate: missing pool file 00878c1c0b64419c1b89a29d7b2cb2bf count 4 2023-12-09 05:18:10 admin : BackupPC_refCountUpdate: missing pool file 01fc066b2e440b1e1fab5989e3161ccf count 1 2023-12-09 05:18:10 admin : BackupPC_refCountUpdate: missing pool file 01c75ec970f78e7d4a34d55fa39c88b5 count 2 2023-12-09 05:18:10 admin : BackupPC_refCountUpdate: missing pool file 0067e89d8633f6af149f0c94ede6fff0 count 2 2023-12-09 05:18:10 admin : BackupPC_refCountUpdate: missing pool file 0165ac5e0d2df0a0fbec502b56dd2cdc count 2 2023-12-09 05:18:10 admin : BackupPC_refCountUpdate: missing pool file 0065c56ba2589f312d7d0e6d50fc58a9 count 2 2023-12-09 05:18:10 admin : BackupPC_refCountUpdate: missing pool file 00fd072b6a0961a143472c5c2abac5fe count 1 thanks Sam
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