[Box Backup] Error (4/11) with 4GB Files

Bernd Zimmermann boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:37:13 +0100


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Ben Summers wrote:
> 
> On 19 Mar 2007, at 11:57, Bernd Zimmermann wrote:
> 
>> Ben,
>> thank you for this fast response. Please find my answer below.
>>
>> Ben Summers wrote:
>>> On 19 Mar 2007, at 08:14, Bernd Zimmermann wrote:
>>>> I want to backup my DB archive files. Each night a new ARCHIVE is 
>>>> created
>>>> and renamed to become the youngest generation as ARCHIVE+ - the 
>>>> older ones
>>>> are renamed to ARCHIVE++ and ARCHIVE+++ respectively. The oldest is 
>>>> removed.
>>>>
>>>> Bbackupquery  list -ts reports one set of these files having been 
>>>> stored
>>>> days ago. But no newer one was backed up since then. In the log
>>>> I could find messages like this:
>>>>
>>>> Mar 19 01:28:40 dlb5 bbackupd[24330]: Backup object failed, error 
>>>> when reading //home/bak/ARCHIVE+
>>>> Mar 19 01:28:40 dlb5 bbackupd[24330]: Error code when uploading was 
>>>> (4/11), BackupStore BadBackupStoreFile
>>>>
>>>> When I copy one of these files to a arbitrary name, it gets backed up.
>>>>
>>>> When I run a "bbackquery -qa compare" I get these ERRORs:
>>>>
>>>> ERROR: (4/11) during file fetch and comparsion for 
>>>> '/dlb5/home/bak/ARCHIVE+'
>>>> ERROR: (7/42) during file fetch and comparsion for 
>>>> '/dlb5/home/bak/ARCHIVE++'
>>>> ERROR: (7/42) during file fetch and comparsion for 
>>>> '/dlb5/home/bak/ARCHIVE+++'
>>>>
>>>> The bbackupd is running on a SuSE Linux 9.0 here.
>>> Which version of Box Backup are you using?
>>
>> The version is 010
>>
>>> Please post your config file. What happens if you delete the file 
>>> referenced by the StoreObjectInfoFile directive while bbackupd is not 
>>> running? What happens if you comment the directive out?
>>
>> The config file is attached.
>> There is no StoreObjectInfoFile, I have not activated this Option - 
>> should I?
> 
> No.
> 
> Stop bbackupd, delete the contents of /var/lib/box, and see what 
> happens. Some versions of Berkeley DB corrupt the db files occasionally.
> 
> Ben
> 
OK ... but there are onle the two zero-length flag files - no db file
btw on my other server (fedora) where bbackupd is also running,
no /var/lib/box directory exists at all.
Thanks
Bernd

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