[Box Backup] bbackupd crashing

[Soren Dossing]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Ben Summers wrote:

> It looks like your Berkeley inode tracking databases have got corrupted. Stop 
> bbackupd, delete the contents of /var/bbackupd (or whatever specified by 
> DataDirectory in bbackupd.conf), and restart bbackupd.

It worked perfectly. Thanks for the suggestion.

> This is harmless, although if you've been renaming large files it may result 
> in some unnecessary use of bandwidth and disc space on the server.

I have not been renaming any files. But it seems like bbackupd uploaded 
everything again... 'bbackupctl sync' maxed out bandwidth for the past 30 
hours.

> Berkeley DB v1 does seem to do this occasionally. In the forthcoming release, 
> we also support a later version which I hope is more reliable.

Any chance that corruptions could be detected by bbackupd and logged?

Soren