G.W. Haywood wrote at about 13:32:42 +0000 on Sunday, December 10, 2023: > Hi there, > > On Sun, 10 Dec 2023, Samual Flossie wrote: > > > 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? > > I believe you are correct. That is true for v3.x but for v4.x if the pool file is missing it may very well represent the (only) copy of data for the same file that is backed up across multiple machines and backups. > > > 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. > > I'm sure that you are right to be concerned. I would be. > > > What additional steps should be taken to resolve these > > "BackupPC_refCountUpdate" messages? > > Does this help? It's just one result from a quick search. > > https://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg33090.html > > It seems that this issue has cropped up before without an obvious > cause, but there was a suggestion that an unclean server shutdown > might have been implicated. I think that's just a guess.
That is my sense and was the best explanation for when I had some such errors a few years ago. > > Full marks, incidentally, for looking at your server logs. :) > > -- > > 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/
