Jeff,
Thanks for tracking this down and proposing the correct fix. I've pushed
the fix to git, and released a new BackupPC-XS-0.59.tar.gz on both git and
cpan.
Craig
On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 7:03 AM wrote:
> There is a simple but severe bug in bpc_attrib.c that causes v3
> version
Sometimes you want to save a special backup that for example
corresponds to a specific change (pre/post) on your system. The
trouble is that with exponential deleting there is no way to
guarantee that your specific designated backup won't be deleted
automatically later on.
In the past, I have
backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 09:10:14 -0400 on Sunday, April 7, 2019:
> backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 08:41:16 -0400 on Sunday, April 7, 2019:
> > I have a v3 backup that is not listed in the pc/host-name/backups file.
> > Is there any simple way to regenerate the line for the
Sorry I've been busy with other things for a while.
Thanks for tracking this down, and posting a proposed fix (on another
thread).
Can you email me (directly, not via the list) one of the V3 attrib files
that fails with V4? I'd like to be 100% sure I understand the bug and fix.
Thanks,
Craig
>
> 2019-04-04 01:18:05 Cpool4 is 4118.27GB, 7700145 files (0 repeated, 0 max
> chain, 6883996 max links), 17028 directories
These BackupPC4 cpool stats are normal. Since BackupPC4 uses a full-file
digest (unlike BackupPC3), pool collisions (different files with the same
digest) are exceedingly
backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 08:08:37 -0400 on Thursday, April 4, 2019:
> When I run 'BackupPC_migrateV3toV4' (v4.3.0), I get occasional errors
> of form:
>setVarInt botch: got negative argument -1015087104; setting to 0
>
>
> NOTE: that the error is rare -- I migrated about 2
There is a simple but severe bug in bpc_attrib.c that causes v3
version (BPC_ATTRIB_TYPE_UNIX) attrib files to either not read or read
in a partial/corrupted fashion.
For me, this led to error messages of form:
unreasonable file name length 1048962
BackupPC_migrateV3toV4: can't read
backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 08:41:16 -0400 on Sunday, April 7, 2019:
> I have a v3 backup that is not listed in the pc/host-name/backups file.
> Is there any simple way to regenerate the line for the backup?
> If not what is the name & format of the individual column entries in the
>
I have a v3 backup that is not listed in the pc/host-name/backups file.
Is there any simple way to regenerate the line for the backup?
If not what is the name & format of the individual column entries in the
pc/host-name/backups file so that I can manually try to create a
working equivalent?
(note
