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Hello,

Some general information:
OS: Debian 6
Backuppc Version: 3.1.0
XferMethod: Rsync

I ocassionally get this error from incremental backups:

Got fatal error during xfer (No backup directory
/srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/dev4_srv_vhosts_cms/new)
Backup aborted (No backup directory
/srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/dev4_srv_vhosts_cms/new)

None of the other hosts have a "new" directory.

Thanks for any advice.

Aaron Cossey
aaron.cossey < at > gmail.com

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Aaron Cossey <aaron.cossey < at > gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

Some general information:
OS: Debian 6
Backuppc Version: 3.1.0
XferMethod: Rsync

I ocassionally get this error from incremental backups:

Got fatal error during xfer (No backup directory
/srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/dev4_srv_vhosts_cms/new)
Backup aborted (No backup directory
/srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/dev4_srv_vhosts_cms/new)

None of the other hosts have a "new" directory.


You should only see the 'new' directory while backups are in progress.
New/changed files accumulate there while they are being processed,
then it is removed after everything is compresed/linked. Could
something else be removing it? Are you running anything manually
that isn't scheduled?

--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell < at > gmail.com

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell < at > gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Aaron Cossey <aaron.cossey < at > gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

Some general information:
OS: Debian 6
Backuppc Version: 3.1.0
XferMethod: Rsync

I ocassionally get this error from incremental backups:

Got fatal error during xfer (No backup directory
/srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/dev4_srv_vhosts_cms/new)
Backup aborted (No backup directory
/srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/dev4_srv_vhosts_cms/new)

None of the other hosts have a "new" directory.


You should only see the 'new' directory while backups are in progress.
 New/changed files accumulate there while they are being processed,
then it is removed after everything is compresed/linked.  Could
something else be removing it?   Are you running anything manually
that isn't scheduled?

--
 Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell < at > gmail.com

Thanks Les,

No, nothing else is running, just the single backuppc instance.

I want to try and catch it in action when it creates and uses the
"new" directory, so I'll let this cron run tonight and see what comes
back.
*/5 * * * * root find /srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/ -maxdepth 2 -type d
-name "new"

--Aaron

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On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Aaron Cossey <aaron.cossey < at > gmail.com> wrote:

No, nothing else is running, just the single backuppc instance.

I want to try and catch it in action when it creates and uses the
"new" directory, so I'll let this cron run tonight and see what comes
back.
*/5 * * * * root find /srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/ -maxdepth 2 -type d
-name "new"


If there is an update packaged for that debian version I would install
it on general principles. I think some bugs were fixed in 3.2.

--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell < at > gmail.com

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On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell < at > gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Aaron Cossey <aaron.cossey < at > gmail.com> wrote:

No, nothing else is running, just the single backuppc instance.

I want to try and catch it in action when it creates and uses the
"new" directory, so I'll let this cron run tonight and see what comes
back.
*/5 * * * * root find /srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/ -maxdepth 2 -type d
-name "new"


If there is an update packaged for that debian version I would install
it on general principles.  I think some bugs were fixed in 3.2.

--
 Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell < at > gmail.com

In Debian-Stable the version is 3.1.0-9.1, unfortunately 3.2 hasn't
been backported.

I looked through the changelog and couldn't find anything specifically
related to this problem.

--Aaron

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On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Aaron Cossey <aaron.cossey < at > gmail.com> wrote:
I looked through the changelog and couldn't find anything specifically
related to this problem.

I don't think I've seen anything about this problem before, so it may
be unique to your system. Have you looked through the system logs
for disk errors, etc.?

--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell < at > gmail.com

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Hello,

Some general information:
OS: Debian 6
Backuppc Version: 3.1.0
XferMethod: Rsync

I ocassionally get this error from incremental backups:

Got fatal error during xfer (No backup directory
/srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/dev4_srv_vhosts_cms/new)
Backup aborted (No backup directory
/srv/backup/rdx/backuppc/pc/dev4_srv_vhosts_cms/new)

None of the other hosts have a "new" directory.


You should only see the 'new' directory while backups are in progress.
 New/changed files accumulate there while they are being processed,
then it is removed after everything is compresed/linked.  Could
something else be removing it?   Are you running anything manually
that isn't scheduled?

--
 Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell < at > gmail.com


Not running anything manually that has anything to do with backuppc.

The disk here is an Tandberg RDX Tape, presenting itself as a disk.
It's quite slow. Perhaps there is a race condition where something
checks to see if the "new" folder is there before it's been created?

--Aaron

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