[Box Backup] some probs with windows version

[Ben Summers]

On 12 Jan 2005, at 19:49, Alex Howansky wrote:

>
>> As to why you have no files in your directories: Look in the 
>> /var/log/box
>> file on the backup store server, and see if there are any clues there.
>
> Just this:
>
> ... bbstored[8948]: Incoming connection from 192.168.253.8 port 1926 
> (handling in child 8958)
> ... bbstored[8958]: Certificate CN: BACKUP-7
> ... bbstored[8958]: Login: Client ID 00000007, Read/Write
> ... bbstored[8958]: Session finished
>
> Which is the same as what the other working machines log when they 
> sync.
>
> However, now that I look at it more closely, hits from this machine are
> happening much more often than the others -- like every two minutes. 
> So, I
> turned on exteded logging and I get this for connects from that 
> machine:
>
> ... bbstored[9067]: Incoming connection from 192.168.253.8 port 1941 
> (handling in child 9080)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Certificate CN: BACKUP-7
> ... bbstored[9080]: Receive Version(0x1)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Receive Version(0x1)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Send Version(0x1)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Send Version(0x1)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Receive Login(0x7,0x0)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Receive Login(0x7,0x0)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Login: Client ID 00000007, Read/Write
> ... bbstored[9080]: Send 
> LoginConfirmed(0x3ed80010789c0,0x5,0x200000,0x233200)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Send 
> LoginConfirmed(0x3ed80010789c0,0x5,0x200000,0x233200)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Receive ListDirectory(0x1,0x2,0xc,false)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Receive ListDirectory(0x1,0x2,0xc,false)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Send Success(0x1)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Send Success(0x1)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Sending stream, size 256
> ... bbstored[9080]: Receive SetClientStoreMarker(0x3ed8006fd6ac0)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Receive SetClientStoreMarker(0x3ed8006fd6ac0)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Send Success(0x3ed8006fd6ac0)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Send Success(0x3ed8006fd6ac0)
> ... bbstored[9080]: Receive Finished()
> ... bbstored[9080]: Receive Finished()
> ... bbstored[9080]: Session finished
> ... bbstored[9080]: Send Finished()
> ... bbstored[9080]: Send Finished()

This looks like the client is having a problem, and retrying. What's in 
the client logs? These will tell you what the error actually is. You 
could try turning on extended logging on the client to get even more 
information.

>
>> Are you able to backup other clients, or is this your first one?
>
> Yes, 6 other clients working just fine -- but they are all Linux 
> machines.
>
>> This is expected behaviour. The server keeps the old versions of the
>> renamed directories around until they need to be deleted.
>
> Right, but you'll notice that I didn't specify the -d switch to the ls 
> command,
> yet I still recieved the "deleted" name in the output. So, I don't 
> believe that
> it's being correctly marked as deleted. (Which it isn't really, since 
> the
> directory never changed, only the config file.)

In the root, they're not really "directories" but "backup locations". 
Deletion of them is handled differently, when they get marked as 
deleted a couple of days after the location is removed from the 
bbackupd.conf file. The client logs will have told you all about this.

Ben