[Box Backup] Troubleshooting a 0.10

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Damien,

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Damien B wrote:

> > If you have a proc filesystem mounted anywhere inside the backup 
> > location, you must exclude it from 0.10, because it will completely 
> > confuse 0.10 and may cause it to crash or hang forever.
> 
> The culprit seems to be that, a proc subtely mounted for this named 
> running chrooted. I should have started by examining /proc/mounts...

I'm just wondering why you didn't spot these error messages in your logs?

> Aug 28 00:10:25 ns29253 bbackupd[25191]: Backup object failed, error when
> reading /var/named/run-root/proc/acpi/event
> Aug 28 00:10:25 ns29253 bbackupd[25191]: Error code when uploading was (1/2),
> Common OSFileOpenError (Can't open a file -- attempted to load a non-existant
> config file or bad file referenced within?)

Is there anything you can suggest that we can do to make these errors 
clearer or encourage people to check their logs and investigate problems 
like this?

Cheers, Chris.
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