Thanks, Alex.
I updated to your latest commit and all is well. The output is much more
verbose now, particularly around daily deletes. One suggestion: as you
show the delete tallies, you say "This archive" but there is no
reference to which archive is being handled. Might be nice to know what
"this" refers to.
Thanks again for your fast update and thanks to Colin for the change.
Bob
On 8/15/2014 7:35 PM, Alex Jurkiewicz wrote:
Thanks Colin for your patch & Bob for the report, I've committed the
fix and a few other improvements while I was at it :-)
On 16 August 2014 02:49, Colin Percival <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
[CCing Alex since it's his code we're talking about here...]
On 08/15/14 09:19, Bob wrote:
> On 8/14/2014 4:55 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
>> On 08/14/14 14:55, Bob wrote:
>>> I am running ACTS to do my backups and cleanup my archive.
Everything was fine
>>> for a month or so, now I get "
>>>
>>> head: illegal line count -- -31" at the end of the tarsnap
backup. As far as I
>>> can tell, everything is still being backed up, but this
message must mean
>>> something. Can anyone help?
>> That would be a problem with the script you're using -- looks
like it's in the
>> part of the script which deletes old daily backups. The "-n
negative number"
>> option to the head utility is nonportable and presumably
doesn't exist on your
>> operating system.
>>
> That makes sense. I am using freeBSD 9.2. The only thing is that
daily backup
> removal was going fine for a while. I am not an expert at this.
Is there a fix
> or a different way to attack backup management?
Probably you never had an error earlier because you had less than
31 daily
backups and so none of them needed to be deleted.
I think the easiest solution here is for 'head -n -X' to be
replaced by
'sort -rn | tail +$(X+1)' -- Alex, do you want to make this change?
--
Colin Percival
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