Re: [Help-tar] tar: Child returned status 1, Error is not recoverable: exiting now

[Robert Kudyba]

On Feb 15, 2017, at 11:11 AM, Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 10:58:22 AM CET Robert Kudyba wrote:

On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:55 AM, Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 9:39:39 AM CET Robert Kudyba wrote:

On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:34 AM, Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> wrote:

On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 9:11:50 AM CET Robert Kudyba wrote:

It varies depending on the excludes and what part of the file system we are
backing up. That’s why I included the actual backup script. But for arguments
sake here would be one example:

Robert, we need to rule out the possibility that you in reality accidentally use
--atime-preserve, so generated example is not enough.

In the /etc/drobo-backup.conf file I have these 2 options:

backup = /home/users --atime-preserve ......

                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is this the issue?

Pavel

Hi Pavel finally getting back around to this. Notice the exclude directive is included. Here’s a comment we have in the config file:

# Change default tar arguments if desired.  By default these are:
#tarargs=--atime-preserve --one-file-system
# Because aquota.user cannot have its atime reset, tar will give
# an error status=2 if --atime-preserve is used when backing it up.
# We don't want to lose the backup of this file but we also don't
# want to routinely ignore tar status=2.  Solution is to make
# --atime-preserve a per-backup argument and omit it when backing
# up aquota.user separately.
# IMPORTANT: include --atime-preserve on all of these except aquota.user

Here are the options we have set for backup paths:

backup = /home/users --atime-preserve --exclude=aquota.user --exclude=.gvfs --exclude=S.gpg-agent --exclude=.adobe  --exclude=.dropbox --exclude=.cache --exclude-caches-all
backup = /home/users/aquota.user
backup = /home --atime-preserve --exclude=.gvfs --exclude=.gnupg  --exclude=aquota.user

Still getting these errors:
/bin/tar: home/users/aquota.user: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Backup of /home/users FAILED
Backed up /home/users to /ourdomain/home-users-FAILED.tgz

Robert, I would encourage you to run the backup script with some logging
output, so we konw what the commandline is.  E.g. print out the tar
command right before it is actually called.

I bet the --atime-preserve _is_ used, which causes this error.

Here you go but notice the exclude (--exclude=aquota.user) is there

/usr/local/sbin/drobo-backup -c /etc/drobo-backup.conf -v -n

Reading configfile /etc/drobo-backup.conf

/bin/mkdir /ourdomain

ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n10 /bin/tar -cf /ourdomain/home-users-new.tgz -C / --one-file-system --warning=no-file-ignored --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed --use-compress-program=pigz home/users --atime-preserve --exclude=aquota.user --exclude=.gvfs --exclude=S.gpg-agent --exclude=.adobe  --exclude=.dropbox --exclude=.cache --exclude-caches-all 

/bin/mkdir /ourdomain

ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n10 /bin/tar -cf /ourdomain/home-users-aquota.user-new.tgz -C / --one-file-system --warning=no-file-ignored --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed --use-compress-program=pigz home/users/aquota.user

/bin/mkdir /ourdomain

ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n10 /bin/tar -cf /ourdomain/home-new.tgz -C / --one-file-system --warning=no-file-ignored --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed --use-compress-program=pigz home --atime-preserve --exclude=.gvfs --exclude=.gnupg  --exclude=aquota.user

/bin/mkdir /ourdomain

ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n10 /bin/tar -cf /ourdomain/etc-new.tgz -C / --one-file-system --warning=no-file-ignored --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed --use-compress-program=pigz etc --atime-preserve

/bin/mkdir /ourdomain

ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n10 /bin/tar -cf /ourdomain/root-new.tgz -C / --one-file-system --warning=no-file-ignored --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed --use-compress-program=pigz root --atime-preserve --exclude=.cache --exclude=.cache/keyring-* --exclude-caches-all

/bin/mkdir /ourdomain

ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n10 /bin/tar -cf /ourdomain/usr-local-new.tgz -C / --one-file-system --warning=no-file-ignored --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed --use-compress-program=pigz usr/local --atime-preserve

/bin/mkdir /ourdomain

ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n10 /bin/tar -cf /ourdomain/var-lib-new.tgz -C / --one-file-system --warning=no-file-ignored --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed --use-compress-program=pigz var/lib --atime-preserve --exclude=var/lib/rpm --exclude=var/lib/yum --exclude=mysql/mysql.sock --exclude=gssproxy/default.sock --exclude=samba/private/msg.sock

/bin/mkdir /ourdomain

ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n10 /bin/tar -cf /ourdomain/var-backup-new.tgz -C / --one-file-system --warning=no-file-ignored --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed --use-compress-program=pigz var/backup --atime-preserve

/bin/mkdir /ourdomain

ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n10 /bin/tar -cf /ourdomain/var-log-new.tgz -C / --one-file-system --warning=no-file-ignored --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed --use-compress-program=pigz var/log --atime-preserve

/bin/mkdir /ourdomain

ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n10 /bin/tar -cf /ourdomain/var-spool-new.tgz -C / --one-file-system --warning=no-file-ignored --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed --use-compress-program=pigz var/spool --atime-preserve

/bin/mkdir /ourdomain

ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n10 /bin/tar -cf /ourdomain/var-www-new.tgz -C / --one-file-system --warning=no-file-ignored --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed --use-compress-program=pigz var/www --atime-preserve

/bin/mkdir /ourdomain

ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n10 /bin/tar -cf /ourdomain/var-yp-new.tgz -C / --one-file-system --warning=no-file-ignored --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed --use-compress-program=pigz var/yp --atime-preserve

Second try renamed /ourdomain/home-users-new.tgz to /ourdomain/home-users.tgz