Re: [rdiff-backup-users] What does 'Attempt to rename over same inode' mean?

[Patrick Nagel]

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Hi Andrew,

thanks for getting back to me about this.

Andrew Ferguson wrote:
| On Aug 10, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Patrick Nagel wrote:
|> today's backup gave me the following message:
|>
|> Warning: Attempt to rename over same inode:
|> /mnt/sdb1/backup/some/path/rdiff-backup.tmp.3491 to
|> /mnt/sdb1/backup/some/path/some_filename
|>
|> Is it something I need to worry about?
|
| Hi Patrick,
|
| Yes, you should worry about this. It indicates that the directory
| /mnt/sdb1/backup/some/path/ has duplicate inodes.
|
| If you do `ls -li` in that directory, it will list the inode numbers.
| IIRC, the inode number for "some_filename" will be duplicated in that list.
|
| A good e2fsck will hopefully sort that out. Check the mailing list
| archives for more information, as I recall a recent problem like this.

I found this thread:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2008-07/msg00121.html

I had also found this before I sent my message to the list, and, following
your advice there, did an fsck already, with no reported errors.

rdiff-backup didn't regress to the last version during the following backup
here, though. The file in question is an email (we're using Maildir storage,
that was the mail server's backup). From what I can tell, the file is in the
backup just as it should be.

`ls -li /mnt/sdb1/backup/some/path/ | cut -b 1-8 | sort | uniq -d` doesn't
result in any output.

In this directory, it's the only file that has two links (in the backup as
well as on the original file system on the server)...

Patrick.

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