Your message dated Fri, 3 Jul 2020 20:04:50 +0100 with message-id <cabwkt9ohk4n0popzc-zwe4hu9v2cnpetjs7grcwtx-x84nj...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line rsync: 65000 hard links => assertion failure has caused the Debian Bug report #622160, regarding rsync: 65000 hard links => assertion failure to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: rsync Version: 3.0.7-2 Severity: normal I use storebackup to create daily backups and I mirror these backups to a report machine using: rsync --stats -a -z -H --numeric-ids --link-dest=/backup \ /backup/ bruckner.vpn.huenfield.org:/home/backup/ During today's run, rsync reported the following errors: ERROR 2011.04.10 11:14:45 27930 rsync: link "/home/backup/forster/2011.04.10_06.36.53/neal/src/temp/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/build_i386_none_486/include/config/dvb/s5h1409.h" => forster/2011.03.10_11.11.28/.gksu.lock failed: Too many links (31) ERROR 2011.04.10 11:14:45 27930 rsync: link "/home/backup/forster/2011.04.10_06.36.53/neal/src/temp/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/build_i386_none_486/include/config/early/printk.h" => forster/2011.03.10_11.11.28/.gksu.lock failed: Too many links (31) ... ERROR 2011.04.10 11:14:45 27930 rsync: hlink.c:537: finish_hard_link: Assertion `(((unsigned char *)(node->data))[0]) == 0' failed. Looking at .gksu.lock, we see that it indeed has the maximum number of allowed hard links (it also has 0 size): $ ls -l /home/backup/forster/2011.03.10_11.11.28/.gksu.lock -rw-r--r-- 65000 neal neal 0 Sep 28 2007 /home/backup/forster/2011.03.10_11.11.28/.gksu.lock I'd like rsync to not fail. Perhaps it should create an additional copy of the content. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers squeeze-updates APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: armel (armv5tel) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-kirkwood Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages rsync depends on: ii base-files 6.0 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libpopt0 1.16-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip rsync recommends no packages. Versions of packages rsync suggests: ii openssh-client 1:5.5p1-6 secure shell (SSH) client, for sec ii openssh-server 1:5.5p1-6 secure shell (SSH) server, for sec -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Confirmed by submitter and maintainer that issue is solved -- Samuel Henrique <samueloph>
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