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Setup is Solaris 9 machine using BackupPC-2.0.2 and Rsyncd to backup XP machine.
Using ActivePerl 5.8.3 and File-RsyncP-0.46.

It falls over everytime with this error:

2004/3/11 10:58:53 Started full backup on spook (pid=29498, share=dDrive)
2004/3/11 10:59:06 spook: Cannot compress negative numbers in pack at /home/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm line 289.
2004/3/11 10:59:17 Backup failed on spook (Child exited prematurely)

File-RsyncP-0.44 works fine, though I am having other problems similar to
thread "backuppc runs for a while, then becomes a zombie".
Seems to only affect Solaris, as I have another BackupPC install on SuSE 9.0, which is
working OK with 0.46.
It isn't a problem with the version of Perl, as I have tried it with 3 different
versions.

Anyone got any ideas?

Michael

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Michael Keightley writes:

Setup is Solaris 9 machine using BackupPC-2.0.2 and Rsyncd to backup XP machine.
Using ActivePerl 5.8.3 and File-RsyncP-0.46.

It falls over everytime with this error:

2004/3/11 10:58:53 Started full backup on spook (pid=29498, share=dDrive)
2004/3/11 10:59:06 spook: Cannot compress negative numbers in pack at /home/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Attrib.pm line 289.
2004/3/11 10:59:17 Backup failed on spook (Child exited prematurely)

File-RsyncP-0.44 works fine, though I am having other problems
similar to thread "backuppc runs for a while, then becomes a
zombie". Seems to only affect Solaris, as I have another BackupPC
install on SuSE 9.0, which is working OK with 0.46. It isn't a
problem with the version of Perl, as I have tried it with 3
different versions.

Ok, this was a change I made in 0.46 to support backward compatibility
to perl 5.005_03.

In File-RsyncP-0.46/FileList/FileList.xs around line 193, change these
lines:

hv_store(rh, "uid", 3, newSVnv((double)file->uid), 0);
hv_store(rh, "gid", 3, newSVnv((double)file->gid), 0);
hv_store(rh, "mode", 4, newSVnv((double)file->mode), 0);
hv_store(rh, "mtime", 5, newSVnv((double)file->modtime), 0);

to

hv_store(rh, "uid", 3, newSVnv((double)((unsigned)file->uid)), 0);
hv_store(rh, "gid", 3, newSVnv((double)((unsigned)file->gid)), 0);
hv_store(rh, "mode", 4, newSVnv((double)((unsigned)file->mode)), 0);
hv_store(rh, "mtime", 5, newSVnv((double)((unsigned)file->modtime)), 0);

Craig


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