[Box Backup] BoxBackup (chris/merge) - Store Error

Matt Brown boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:13:06 +0100


> Hi Matt,
>

Hi Chris,

>> Hope the hols in mexico were good and your feeling refreshed :-)
>
> Yes, they were great, thanks! It's really hot and humid in Yucatan,  
> and we had a hurricane which spiced things up a bit :-)
>
>> When I run the bbstoreaccounts check option I get ...
>>
>> root@pegasus:~# /usr/local/bin/bbstoreaccounts check 1
>> Checking store account ID 0x000001...
>> Phase 1, check objects...
>> Phase 2, check directories...
>> Phase 3, check root...
>> WARNING: Root directory doesn't exist
>
> That's very interesting. Since backups are working correctly, and  
> bbstoreaccounts' attempt to recreate it fails, I believe that the  
> root directory does actually exist, and is not found for some  
> reason. bbstoreaccounts appears to be checking some kind of block  
> index to find it. I don't claim to understand exactly what it's  
> doing. Ben, do you have any ideas?
>

Well I have just implemented this server with 4 clients so far - so  
we are still in the honeymoon phase of getting the data.. upto approx  
200GB so far. I have managed to restore data from the store  
successfully and without issues.

> If nobody else can help, and you're willing to try a new version of  
> Box Backup, I can add some debugging code to bbstoreaccounts to  
> help track this down.
>

As always, happy to assist.

Matt