[Box Backup] Box Backup check fix Segmentation fault

Ben Summers boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:08:16 +0000


On 19 Nov 2006, at 14:56, Paul MacKenzie wrote:

> Hi Ben
>
> Thanks for your response
>
> Here is the output I think you are looking for
>
>                   Account ID: 12345SB
>               Last object ID: 4968730
>                  Blocks used: 15629037 (30525.46Mb)
>     Blocks used by old files: 5356308 (10461.54Mb)
> Blocks used by deleted files: 1231149 (2404.59Mb)
>   Blocks used by directories: 141788 (276.93Mb)
>             Block soft limit: 15360000 (30000.00Mb)
>             Block hard limit: 25600000 (50000.00Mb)
>          Client store marker: 1163917214000000
>
> This account is only about 6 months old. It has always been with  
> the newest version of box backup on the server.
>
> I ran it again and the same result came up. I am not sure of the  
> number of files but there are probably a lot of little files that  
> are old / deleted. Oddly I have another server with definitely more  
> files that seems to check fine so far. I was noticing the system  
> was not backing up so I was taking this fix step in hopes that the  
> fix would allow it to start backing up again.
>
> Any ideas on how this can be fixed or do I have to wipe it and  
> recreate it?


Try stopping bbackupd (client) and deleting the contents of /var/ 
bbackupd, then restart it.

I wonder if bbstoreaccounts check fix is running out of memory --  
it's going to need about 16 bytes for every one of those 4968730  
object IDs. But it shouldn't just go bang.

Ben